A Case of Mystery

Verso l'ora zero is an Italian television film from 1980. It is based on the Agatha Christie novel Towards Zero.

In the figure of Ettore Zambrini, a small industrialist with a dream of opening a factory overlooking the Autostrada del Sole, Montaldo offers us an effective narrative transposition of the 'animal spirits' that governed the economic boom in Italy at the time. He is a character of contradictory humanity: capable of handling business, overdue bills, trade union relations, marital betrayal, but also the passion that binds him to his wife with equal unscrupulousness.

Study of a man whose basic sense of inferiority leads him from worse to worse.