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Footprints on the Moon (1975)

Footprints on the Moon poster
Original title
Le orme
Directed by
Luigi Bazzoni
Genre
horror film
Country
Italy
Runtime
1h 50m
Rated
16
Rating
6.3 of 10 from 67 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A translator named Alice discovers she has lost two days of her memory. She follows clues to a seaside town where strangers think she is someone else named Nicole.

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What happens

Footprints on the Moon (Italian: Le orme, lit. 'The Footprints', also released as Primal Impulse) is a 1975 Italian giallo film written and directed by Luigi Bazzoni, and starring Florinda Bolkan, Peter McEnery, Lila Kedrova, Nicoletta Elmi, and Klaus Kinski. It concerns Alice (Bolkan), a translator with an unexplained two-day gap in her memory who follows clues to a mysterious seaside town for answers, where the unfamiliar residents seem to recognize her as a different woman named Nicole. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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