Faccia di spia explained

Faccia di spia
Director:	Giuseppe Ferrara
Music:	Manos Hatzidakis
Cinematography:	Mario Masini
Country:	Italy
Language:	Italian

Faccia di spia (also known as C.I.A. Secret Story) is a 1975 Italian political drama film written and directed by Giuseppe Ferrara.^{[1] [2]}

Cast

• Adalberto Maria Merli as Captain Felix Ramos
• Mariangela Melato as Tania
• Francisco Rabal as Mehdi Ben Barka
  • Riccardo Cucciolla as Giuseppe Pinelli Claudio Camaso as Che Guevara
• George Ardisson as Patrick
• Ugo Bologna as Salvador Allende
• Dominique Boschero as Licia Pinelli
• Lou Castel as the torturer
• Gérard Landry as Mr. Rutherford

Production

Lou Castel revealed that in one scene director Giuseppe Ferrara really wanted him to penetrate with a prosthetic penis Mimma Biscardi, the actress playing the tortured woman (who was drugged during filming).^[3]

Notes and References

1. Book: Roberto Chiti . Roberto Poppi . Enrico Lancia . Dizionario del cinema italiano: I film. Gremese, 1991. 8876059350.
2. Book: Marco Giusti. Dizionario dei film italiani stracult. 1999. Sperling & Kupfer. 8820029197.
3. Web site: Intervista a Lou Castel . quinlan.it . 21 May 2023.