Professione: reporter


1h 59m 1975

Brief Synopsis

A reporter arrives at a desert hotel, in a North African country, to report on the guerrilla freedom-fighters there. He meets a man who dies suddenly, and who resembles the reporter so much, that he decides to change identities with the dead man - to escape his personal problems, and more. The life is of a man is made of his ingrained habits, and that will haunt him, as he tries to start a new relationship with a young, strange woman he subsequently meets...

Film Details

MPAA Rating
Release Date
1975

Technical Specs

Duration
1h 59m
Color
Color (Metrocolor)
Theatrical Aspect Ratio
2.00 : 1

Synopsis

A reporter arrives at a desert hotel, in a North African country, to report on the guerrilla freedom-fighters there. He meets a man who dies suddenly, and who resembles the reporter so much, that he decides to change identities with the dead man - to escape his personal problems, and more. The life is of a man is made of his ingrained habits, and that will haunt him, as he tries to start a new relationship with a young, strange woman he subsequently meets...

Film Details

MPAA Rating
Release Date
1975

Technical Specs

Duration
1h 59m
Color
Color (Metrocolor)
Theatrical Aspect Ratio
2.00 : 1

Quotes

Who are you?
- The Girl
I used to be someone else but I traded him im.
- David Locke

Trivia

The execution of a prisoner in this film is not staged. It consists of actual footage of a real execution that the crew filmed while on location.