Las armas cortas ocupan un lugar destacado en el arsenal del soldado, y durante la segunda guerra mundial uno de los más preciados trofeos de los combatientes aliados era una pistola alemana o italiana. Si se acepta que el arma corta cuanta con un escaso potencial de combate, ¿cómo se explica que se haya mantenido como dotacion habitual en los ejercitos del siglo XX?

Alessio Rinaldi, a 25-year-old director, gets the charge from a producer to write the script of his first movie with Ubaldo Terzani, a well-known writer of horror novels. Alessio moves into Terzani's house to start this collaboration, and a strange relationship of psychological dependence grows between them: Ubaldo Terzani unveils his dark side, and Alessio fall in a desperate depth of craziness and nightmares. There is a reason why Terzani's bestsellers are so frightening ... Alessio will discover that reality can be unexpectedly more terrifying than every brainchild, and he will have to fight hard to escape Ubaldo Terzani's jaws.

The opera has many high points, not least the stirring conclusions to both acts, so the singers must not only excel in their art, but must be good actors as well. The cast in this dramatic recording perform magnificently, and their commitment to the score is compelling from beginning to end.

Silenciosamente, a traves de las profundidades, avanzan con cautela los leviatanes mas amenazadores aue ha conocido el mundo. Durante meses seguidos, submarinos lanzamisiles de cinco naciones patrullan los mares mientras la inmensidad y la profundidad del oceano ocultan y protegen su terrible poder destructivo.