A thriller which involves a group of teenagers born on the wrong side of town and their devoted teacher who tries to help them come back on the straight and narrow through education in evening school ; why did someone kill this harmless generous woman? One of her students? But one of them hints at a mysterious woman who might be the killer.
Much time is given over to the questionings in which the superintendent (Pier Paolo Cappani) uses special methods to make them talk (for it is forbidden to mistreat youngsters; really?) .One of them, played by Giuliano Manetti ,as a hung-up kid about his gay sexuality steals the show from the principal in his scenes; youngster Mazio Margin is very good too ,from a slack boy to a clean-cut sonny from a good background, complete with suit and tie ,the cop uses as a bait.
The score is intrusive ; when a suspect enters the superintendent's office ,it looks like circus music heralding a sensational act .
Apart from that, it's a respectable thriller, in which the slayer is refered to by "he " or "she " .
Much time is given over to the questionings in which the superintendent (Pier Paolo Cappani) uses special methods to make them talk (for it is forbidden to mistreat youngsters; really?) .One of them, played by Giuliano Manetti ,as a hung-up kid about his gay sexuality steals the show from the principal in his scenes; youngster Mazio Margin is very good too ,from a slack boy to a clean-cut sonny from a good background, complete with suit and tie ,the cop uses as a bait.
The score is intrusive ; when a suspect enters the superintendent's office ,it looks like circus music heralding a sensational act .
Apart from that, it's a respectable thriller, in which the slayer is refered to by "he " or "she " .