Ugo Tognazzi
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Plot. Total, a young bank cashier, is allergic to money and feels only contempt for his customers who in his eyes built their wealth on criminal or corrupt activities. After witnessing an armed robbery in his bank, he resigns from his job and turns to theft.
Oct 4, 1973 · Property Is No Longer a Theft: Directed by Elio Petri. With Ugo Tognazzi, Flavio Bucci, Daria Nicolodi, Mario Scaccia. A bank cashier who's allergic to banknotes quits his job after an armed robbery. He decides to start a new life--as a thief.
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- Comedy, Drama
- Elio Petri
- 1973-10-04
Apr 8, 2017 · The philosophical argument of materialism vs. theft gets an oddball thriller workout in Elio Petri’s flip, funny and challenging satire Property is No Longer a Theft.
In maestro, Elio Petri's final gripping instalment of his outstanding "trilogy of neurosis", the hugely respected, enviably versatile Italian director's stunning satire 'Property is No Longer a Theft' (1973) is a blackly funny, darkly sensual assault upon bourgeois sensibilities that uncomfortably feels more than a little relevant 40 years on ...
Property Is No Longer a Theft. A young bank clerk, denied a loan by his employer, decides to exact his revenge on the local butcher who is one of the bank’s star customers. Quitting his job, the clerk devotes his time tormenting the butcher, stealing his possessions one-by-one, including his mistress. 25 2 h 6 min 1973.
Property Is No Longer a Theft. Allergic to money, a clerk (Flavio Bucci) at a bank steals items from a wealthy butcher (Ugo Tognazzi).
- Comedy
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In the early 1970s, as the Red Brigade revolted in attempt to destabilize Italy, Elio Petri set out to skewer capital fetishization in his densely layered Property is No Longer a Theft. The film —whose title is a play on the French anarchist Pierre-Joseph Proudhon's 1840 book Property is Theft— is
