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Kill the Fatted Calf and Roast It (1970)

Kill the Fatted Calf and Roast It poster
Original title
Uccidete il vitello grasso e arrostitelo
Directed by
Salvatore Samperi
Genre
drama film
Country
Italy
Runtime
1h 32m
Rating
5.2 of 10 from 6 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

Two young men take a woman hostage in a remote villa. The situation grows more complicated as tensions and hidden motives emerge among them.

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What happens

Uccidete il vitello grasso e arrostitelo (internationally released as Kill the Fatted Calf and Roast It) is a 1970 Italian giallo film directed by Salvatore Samperi. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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