Eyes of CrystalOcchi di Cristallo

Overview

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  • Awards:

    • While hunting a cultured, intelligent and vicious psychopath, Inspector Amaldi comes face to face with the physical and moral decay of his city as well as the ghosts of his own past.

  • Details:

    • 107 min - Crime / Investigation / Thriller - Italian - 2002
    • Color - 1.85 - Dolby SRD

  • Directed by:

    • Eros Puglielli

  • Cast:

    • Luigi Lo Cascio (Buongiorno Notte)
    • Lucia Jimenez
    • Jose Angel Egido

  • Produced by:

    • Cattleya

  • Delivery:

    • Available

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  • Synopsis

    A brilliant detective with a tragic past; a beautiful girl hounded by a maniac; a ferocious serial killer whose hobby is mutilating his victims; and a race against time to stop him - These are the ingredients of Eyes of Crystal, a tense, heart-stopping thriller, somewhere between "Seven" and "Silence of the Lambs".
    In a city besieged by disorder and corruption, Detective Giacomo Amaldi     (Lo Cascio) is on a mission: cold and precise, with an unfailing, instinctual understanding of maniacs and murderers, he immediately recognizes that, behind the brutal execution of a young couple and the peeping tom who was spying on them, lies the sick mind of a serial killer. And new facts bear him out. The killer finds new victims, mutilating them in a sadistic game, for him like playing with dolls and employing a horrific technique which earns him the reputation of "The Taxidermist."
    However, the hunt for the serial killer is not Detective Amaldi's only problem, as his colleague Ajaccio     (Caba) has been diagnosed with a brain tumor; he has only a few months to live. At the same time, a beautiful anthropology student, Giuditta Luzzato (Jiménez), has asked for Amaldi's help in tracking the maniac who is stalking her. Giuditta hits on Amaldi's natural desire to protect her while also re-awakening painful memories still not fully buried.
    And for Ajaccio, now confined to a hospital bed, his sickness also brings up memories long-thought forgotten. The past returns, threateningly, particularly when mysterious signals linking him to The Taxidermist begin to appear around him and, literally, upon him.
    As Amaldi's professional interest in Giuditta is turning rather more personal, Avildsen     (Gomez), her Anthropology professor, helps the detective to form a more precise portrait of the killer. Amaldi must rely not only on his training as a policeman but on his heart and on his past, which he mistakenly believed he had left behind.
    The bodies continue to pile up, and the killer begins a nasty game of cat and mouse with Amaldi, choosing victims that bring him closer and closer to the detective and leaving him cryptic messages.
    After the cruel murder of the victim thus far closest to Amaldi, the next target is certainly Giuditta. A climactic encounter with the killer will reveal horrible truths, secret identities and unexpected courage in a violent crescendo sure to leave the audience holding its breath to the very end.