Twelve Hours to Live

After dying in a car accident, wealthy shoe industrialist Carlo Bacchi finds himself in the afterlife, where he is condemned to hell for having committed evil while alive. Defending himself against the accusation in an impassioned plea, however, he succeeds in obtaining to return to earth for a few hours to make reparation for the evil he committed and, above all, for the bad deed that caused Amedeo Santini's suicide attempt. The affair will lead him to make a risky but happy choice.

Director

Luigi Zampa

Writers

Cesare Zavattini, Suso Cecchi d'Amico, Vitaliano Brancati, Diego Fabbri, Henri Jeanson, Giorgio Moser

Released

October 19, 1950

Language

Italian