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The film is shot in a misty humid color style that seems as though the camera needed to blow its nose. The use of actual Bologna and Venice locales adds to the film's authenticity. Ennio Morricone's score is appropriately melancholy. This is truly an engrossing drama.
The Murri Affair ( Italian: Fatti di gente perbene, lit. 'Facts of Decent People'; French: La grande bourgeoise, lit. 'The Great Bourgeois') is a 1974 historical drama film directed by Mauro Bolognini, starring Giancarlo Giannini and Catherine Deneuve. It is based on real events of a notorious 1902 murder trial. [1]
Synopsis. Based on a true incident, this tells the story of a troubled young man who kills his sister's reactionary, violent, abusive husband and is eventually arrested for the murder.
After a man's murder in circa-1900 Italy, weak evidence holds his rich wife (Catherine Deneuve), her brother (Giancarlo Giannini) and her lover for the crime.
- Mauro Bolognini
- R
- Giancarlo Giannini
Top Contributors. Based on a true incident, this tells the story of a troubled young man who kills his sister's reactionary, violent and abusive husband and is eventually arrested for the murder. However, the dead husband happened to be a member of the Italian nobility, and the trial starts to turn into more of a prosecution of the defendant's ...
The Murri Affair: Directed by Mauro Bolognini. With Giancarlo Giannini, Catherine Deneuve, Fernando Rey, Tina Aumont. Based on a true incident, this tells the story of a troubled young man who kills his sister's reactionary, violent, abusive husband and is eventually arrested for the murder.
The Murri Affair is a 1974 historical drama film directed by Mauro Bolognini, starring Giancarlo Giannini and Catherine Deneuve. It is based on real events of a notorious 1902 murder trial. It was awarded with a David di Donatello for Best Film.
