When an unsuspecting Giovanni Brass, known as "Tinto," accepted in the distant '64 to direct one of his very first films—previously rejected by the already established Mario Monicelli and Michelangelo Antonioni—he committed himself to a respectable film where Alberto Sordi plays no fewer than four characters who will end up in a mental hospital after various trials and tribulations, with an unsuspecting Monica Vitti portraying a nymphomaniac, leaving us with a memorable line: "Dime porca che me piase de più..."

Critics write that the director uses "science fiction" to weave a satire of national/local customs.

His aim was focused on the secret vices of the wealthy, conservative northeastern Italian province.

Farmers and priests, nobles, village fools, and law representatives make up the many facets of a bourgeoisie more rural than urban, welcomed by the powers that be only as long as it remains silent, but unacceptable when it imprudently reveals its nonconformist and/or corrupted identity.

Alberto Sordi,Silvana Mangano,Monica Vitti - IL DISCO VOLANTE - il film (1964)