The Anonymous Venetian

Enrico is a musician living in Venice. He asks his ex-wife Valeria to come and see him without telling her why. She comes. For a day they walk through Venice together: old houses, canals, places left over from the years they spent together. Enrico will not say why he called her, but the way he behaves makes it clear something is different. As the day goes on the conversation moves into the past and finally to the actual reason. Enrico Maria Salerno directs, with Tony Musante and Florinda Bolkan. Salerno came to it from acting; this was his first attempt at directing. Venice in winter, the empty streets and Stelvio Cipriani's score made the film very widely known in its own time.