Captured by Dante Spinotti, who later gained fame for Hollywood hits like Heat and L.A. Confidential .
The film follows Luca Manzi, a fourteen-year-old boy living under fascist rule who becomes a partisan. Disillusioned after the war when societal changes fail to meet his expectations, he retreats into a state of physical and emotional "disobedience," essentially choosing to let himself die. He is eventually "saved" through complex, often controversial relationships with two older women: : His father's lover, who introduces him to sex. la disubbidienza 1981 imdb top