Palombella rossa

Michele is an MP for the Italian Communist Party who loses his memory in a car crash, though hardly anyone around him seems to notice. During a crucial water polo match on the eve of election day, he gradually begins to remember his past life, revealing a man whose personal and political identity crisis mirrors that of Italian communism itself.

• identity crisis
• surrealism
• memory loss
• character study
• political satire
• metaphor
• water polo
• fall of communism
• mother son relationship
• psychanalyse