A journalist (Jack Nicholson) is working on a documentary in the Republic of Chad. Disillusioned, he assumes the identity of a dead man (Charles Mulvehill) while faking his own death. But he hadn't counted on the dead man being an arms dealer. Soon, he is pursued by hitmen who want to assassinate the arms dealer and his own wife (Jenny Runacre), who doesn't know the arms dealer is her "dead" husband. Directed by Michelangelo Antonioni (L'AVVENTURA). Ostensibly a thriller of sorts, this being Antonioni, it isn't your garden variety thriller but an enigmatic adventure of a disillusioned man running away from his life and taking on a new life, only to find a dead end (literally) at the end of the journey. It's not my favorite work of Antonioni's films but it's still a spellbinding piece of cinema by a master filmmaker with Nicholson in his prime. With Maria Schneider, Ian Hendry and Steven Berkoff.
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