Director: Renato De Maria
A family holiday turns into a nightmare in "Vanished Into the Night," a 2024 Italian drama-mystery from director Renato De Maria.
What is Vanished Into the Night about?
Riccardo Scamarcio plays a father already worn down by a bitter divorce when his two children disappear without a trace from the family's remote country house. What begins as a frantic search across the surrounding countryside soon pulls him into confrontations he never expected, forcing him to question who around him can actually be trusted. Annabelle Wallis and Massimiliano Gallo round out a cast caught between grief, suspicion, and the pressure of a ticking clock, while the isolated setting keeps the sense of dread close and personal rather than sprawling. As the hours pass with no sign of the children, the search widens from neighbors and relatives to people from the father's own past, and each new lead complicates rather than resolves the central question of what actually happened that night.
Cast & crew
Riccardo Scamarcio anchors the film as the desperate father, with Annabelle Wallis and Massimiliano Gallo in key supporting roles alongside Gaia Coletti, Lorenzo Ferrante, Giordano Agrusta, Arturo Alessandri, and Martina Colaninno.
Context & significance
Shot in Italy and released in 2024, the film belongs to a run of European thrillers that trade sprawling conspiracies for a tight, family-centered mystery, using an isolated rural house as a pressure cooker rather than a backdrop. The screenplay keeps its focus narrow, following a single household over a short span of days instead of widening into a regional manhunt, which lets small details, a locked gate, a missing car, an unanswered phone, carry far more weight than they would in a larger-scale production.
Where & how to watch
"Vanished Into the Night" is included in K-Time's catalog with a Persian dub, and the film's page can be read without logging in. Watching the film itself requires a free K-Time account, and the rest of the site is built around a Farsi-first browsing experience for Persian-speaking viewers.