A Pure Formality

Name: A Pure Formality
Director: Giuseppe Tornatore
Released: 1994
Duration: 111 min
Rating: 7.5
Cast: Gérard Depardieu, Roman Polanski, Sergio Rubini, Nicola Di Pinto, Tano Cimarosa

1994 · 111 MIN · IMDB 7.5 · 13,007 VOTES · DIR. Giuseppe Tornatore

Overview

Onoff is a famous writer, now a recluse. The Inspector is suspicious when Onoff is brought into the station one night, disoriented and suffering a kind of amnesia. In an isolated, rural police station, the Inspector tries to establish the events surrounding a killing, to reach a startling resolution.

Dialogue Timeline — 1,288 lines

A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE

00:00:02 Kikina presents

00:08:52 An Inspector smokes a pipe...

00:13:11 That's your right.

00:16:08 I'm ready, sir!

00:20:13 It's... I... What can I say to apologize?

00:26:25 Yes, of course.

00:29:32 Three packs a day. A bit more lately.

00:32:01 I scratched my head.

00:34:21 But until

00:36:53 Children?

00:39:25 How can we live in a place like this!

00:47:20 What time?

00:51:07 Why don't you prove your innocence?

00:54:10 they'd cut off their hands.

00:57:01 You'd better release me, or else...

01:00:37 here, in the middle of nowhere, where even you say you seldom come?

01:06:41 But your house had turned into

01:12:58 Who is he?

01:16:31 After that

01:22:21 I opened it.

01:25:32 after all those years of silence.

01:29:10 Right?

01:37:05 Hello?

01:43:09 Difficult, but...

Cast & Characters

Gérard Depardieu Onoff Roman Polanski Inspector Sergio Rubini Andre, the Young Policeman Nicola Di Pinto Captain Tano Cimarosa Servant Paolo Lombardi Marshall Maria Rosa Spagnolo Paula Alberto Sironi Giovanni Morricone Mahdi Kraiem

Dialogue Record

Lines indexed1,288

Dialogue density11.6 lines / min

First line00:00:02

Final line01:43:09

Production Record

DirectorGiuseppe Tornatore

LanguageFrench

IMDb votes13,007