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Death of a Neapolitan Mathematician (1992)

IMDb6.7108 min

Naples, 1959. Pure Mathematics professor Renato Caccioppoli, Bakunin's grandson, is a tortured soul. Recently discharged from the psychiatric hospital, left by his wife, and increasingly disillusioned with academia and the Communist Party, he lives his last days with painful detachment.

Themes1950salcoholic teacheralcoholismbiographycollege professor