 The Italian producer Enrico Ghezzi commissioned the movie to Straub  and Huillet to celebrate Roberto Rossellinis centenary. Asked to  imagine a moment in the life or the death of Ingrid Bergmans  character in Europa 51 (1952), their reading of Rossellini yielded  this political pamphlet about the death of two Parisian youngsters  who, chased by the police, hid in a high