Another obscure giallo recently unearthed from the national archives, A Dying Need reminds me a lot of director Duccio Tessari’s excellent The Death Occured Last Night where we get to follow parallel investigations which eventually meet in the final reel. 

Shot for the most part in the northern coastal town of Arenzano, it’s a thinly-veiled attack on the cynicism and hypocrisy of middle-class Italians during the boom years which was initially banned for obscenity. When it was eventually released it failed to find any kind of significant distribution and fell into relative obscurity. The 35mm print in the national archives was rediscovered and deposited there by the D.W. Griffiths Archive.

 “On July 20, 1965, the Public Prosecutor of Lucca proceeded to seize the film and on January 8, 1966 sentenced Duccio Tessari to six months in prison and a fine of 60,000 lire for directing an ‘obscene’ film; He was eventually given a suspended sentence. On 5 October 1967 the Florence Public Prosecutor’s Office approved the release of the film and acquitted Tessari” (source)

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