Quella chiara notte d'ottobre

Quella chiara notte d'ottobre is an Italian crime film directed and written by Massimo Franciosa, released around 1970, with French-language sources placing its actual release the following year. The cast is headed by singer-actor Don Backy and character actor Venantino Venantini, joined by Irina Demick, Anita Strindberg and Anita Ekberg in supporting roles. Franciosa, who worked mainly as a screenwriter across his career before and after this project, took on both writing and directing duties here, placing the picture within the wave of Italian genre crime films that filled cinemas through the late 1960s and early 1970s. Beyond its cast and crime classification, little further plot detail has survived in the sources consulted, though the presence of Ekberg, already an internationally recognized star by 1970, alongside Backy's crossover from music into acting, marks the production as one built around a mix of established and popular faces of the period rather than around a single breakout lead.