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{it} Un sussurro nel buio / {en} A Whisper in the Dark [1] (Italy, 1976), directed by Marcello Aliprandi, starring Alessandro Poggi.

Martino is a young child who claims to have an invisible friend called Luca. His parents assume it is just a game, but strange things start to happen...

12 year old Martino may as well live alone at his family's sprawling Venetian villa. Largely ignored by his wealthy, self-absorbed parents and left with few playmates he soon falls under the spell of an imaginary friend named Luca. When Martino's mother begins to investigate her son's increasingly hostile invisible playmate, a revelation about her past leads her to believe that Luca may in fact be the vengeful spirit of the child she lost before Martino was born.