Escalation

Escalation

89 mins | Comedy | Feb. 29, 1968

1968, London. Luca is living his 'swinging' years away from duties and responsibilities while his father wants him to be introduced to the family business at any cost. Luca is first forced to return to Italy, then kidnapped by his father's collaborators, placed in a sanitarium and put through electroshock therapy and other torments. Once 'normalised' Luca marries a woman who is in reality a psychologist paid by his father to brainwash him and turn him into a perfect businessman.

Escalation

89 mins | Comedy | Feb. 29, 1968

Escalation
1968, London. Luca is living his 'swinging' years away from duties and responsibilities while his father wants him to be introduced to the family business at any cost. Luca is first forced to return to Italy, then kidnapped by his father's collaborators, placed in a sanitarium and put through electroshock therapy and other torments. Once 'normalised' Luca marries a woman who is in reality a psychologist paid by his father to brainwash him and turn him into a perfect businessman.
IMDb rating 5.8
Producers Cemo Film
Original title Escalation
Directors Liliana Vannozzi, Roberto Faenza
Writers Roberto Faenza

Cast

Claudine Auger

as Carla Maria Mannini

Lino Capolicchio

as Luca Lambertinghi

Gabriele Ferzetti

as Augusto Lambertinghi

Didi Perego

as Private investigator

Leopoldo Trieste

as Priest / Guru

Paola Corinti

as Augusto's lover

Dada Gallotti

as Nurse

Harold Null

as Police sergeant

Jacqueline Perrier

as Valeria Lambertenghi

Michele Riccardini

as Detective

Antonietta Fiorito

as Lambertenghi employee