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Inspector Anna Manni is the main protagonist and hidden secondary antagonist of the film The Stendhal Syndrome. She's a police inspector on the trail of serial rapist/killer Alfredo Grossi, ending up raped, tortured, and scarred by Grossi and fighting back for her life to the point where she's unrecoverably disturbed.
She's portrayed by Asia Argento.
Biography[]
Inspector Manni is a high-ranking police official on the case of Alfredo Grossi, a fugitive serial rapist/killer of women across the country. She tracks Grossi all the way to Florence, Grossi ready and targeting her as well. Manni goes into psychotropic hallucinations and trances when she sees artwork in public places like museums. She's revealed to have a condition known as Stendhal syndrome, which Grossi notices while stalking her. In one of her trances, Grossi abducts her and takes her to the sexual sadist's lair. While bound to a mattress nude, she's raped, tortured, and defiled in various ways, including rape, her hair being cut, being forced to fellate a gun barrel, and being cut with a razor blade. Before Grossi can kill her, she escapes, but she never recovers from the torture and insanity of it all. In another one of her trances, she's captured by Grossi again, suffering more tortures and rapes. This time, she fights back, grabbing a gun during a fight and shooting Grossi in the eye. When the fight reaches a riverbank, she forces Grossi to fall into the water.
Presumed dead, Grossi's case is closed and Manni enters psychological treatment with a licensed therapist, Dr. Cavanna. She even starts dating a new girlfriend, Marie Beyle. But it takes a turn for the worse when not only she gets threatening, taunting calls in Grossi's voice, but she's devastated to find out Beyle's been murdered. She immediately assumes Grossi's responsible, but Grossi's corpse is found washed up near the river, confirming the death happened before Marie's murder. Cavanna rushes over to Manni's home only for Manni to shoot Cavanna dead, revealing herself as Cavanna's and Beyle's killer, which is why Cavanna tried to stop her. Manni's colleague, Marco Longhi, soon arrives and sees the carnage. Manni reveals Grossi's rapes and tortures of her have left Grossi in her psych as an alter personality, making her violent to the people around her because the alter Grossi is making her. The phone calls were all hallucinations reinforced by her scarred psyche. She kills Longhi and then stumbles aimlessly on the streets. The police come and arrest her, and she's likely institutionalized for the three murders because of her psychotic/dissociative capacity.
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