Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion
1970
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Eraclio Petri (29 January 1929 – 10 November 1982), commonly known as Elio Petri, was an Italian film and theatre director, screenwriter and film critic. [1] [2] The Museum of Modern Art described him as "one of the preeminent political and social satirists of 1960s and early 1970s Italian cinema". [3] His film Investigation of a Citizen ...
Elio Petri. Writer: Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion. Elio Petri was born on 29 January 1929 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. He was a writer and director, known for Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion (1970), We Still Kill the Old Way (1967) and His Days Are Numbered (1962).
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- Rome, Lazio, Italy
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- Rome, Lazio, Italy
Elio Petri (born January 29, 1929, Rome, Italy—died November 10, 1982, Rome) was an Italian motion-picture director and screenwriter.. Petri’s formal education was limited; most of his formative experiences occurred on the streets, in his neighbourhood, and in the local cell of the Italian Communist Party, of which he was a militant member until 1956.
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Sep 2, 2014 · Elio Petri: A Forgotten Genius, Remembered. Curator of the ICA’s Elio Petri season, Nico Marzano, introduces a selection of the director’s seminal works and charts their influence on subsequent generations of filmmakers. Elio Petri’s films are popular art for the people. Depicting Italy in the 70s, they still feel very modern and relevant ...
The provocative Italian filmmaker Elio Petri’s most internationally acclaimed work is this remarkable, visceral, Oscar-winning thriller. Petri maintains a tricky balance between absurdity and realism in telling the Kafkaesque tale of a Roman police inspector (a commanding Gian Maria Volontè) investigating a heinous crime—which he himself committed. Both a compelling character study and a ...
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Mar 17, 2020 · Elio Petri was an Italian auteur who studied with the neorealist greats, but whose work explores the psychology of the individual when confronted by various idiosyncrasies of modern society, particularly within social, political and economic class systems. His films presented a scathing satire of the various facets of Italian society across a ...
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A Quiet Place in the Country: Directed by Elio Petri. With Franco Nero, Vanessa Redgrave, Georges Géret, Gabriella Boccardo. After moving into a dilapidated rural villa to reinvigorate his creative energies, a neurotic artist becomes obsessed with a beautiful countess who died there many years prior.
