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The Man Who Didn't Want to Die

The Man Who Didn't Want to Die

1989 · 90 min · ★ 5.0 · Drama, Crime, Thriller, Horror, TV Movie

A young man lies in a hospital suspended between life and death. The police know nothing about him. The patient, in his rare moments of consciousness, only remembers his gang’s involvement in a robbery of a rare painting, and the mysterious Madame Jacno who commissioned Fabrizio, the gang leader, to steal the work of art. But someone is still trying to kill the patient, and as his life is continually threatened, his memory slowly comes back to him…!

Directed by Lamberto Bava · Written by Gianfranco Clerici

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