WHY Directed by NANNI LOY Screenplay by SERGIO AMIDEI and EMILIO SANNA
This is a movie that confounds all preconceptions and expectations. The plotan innocent man is vaguely accused of a crime and shunted from prison to prisonsuggests political reform, social outrage, harrowing character study and, ultimately, Kafka. But thanks to the skill of the superb comic actor Alberto Sordi and the subtly inflected direction of Nanni Loy (The Four Days of Naples), Why is a comedy that smiles like a razor.
Giuseppe Di Noi (Sordi), on vacation with his wife and two young children, is asked to step into the customs office...