Ugo Tognazzi
The Butcher
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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.
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 ...
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.
There is a striking scene in the middle of Elio Petri's Property is No Longer a Theft where a famous thief is given a funeral by the cream of Rome's criminal underclass.
The revolution that Property Is No Longer a Theft calls for is a revolution of the mind. The coin and the literalism and the symbiotic relationship that the thief and the property owner share is called ideology.
Dec 4, 2017 · Capitalism and corruption are the main courses served in Elio Petri’s darkly comic Property is No Longer a Theft (La proprietà non è più un furto). When a lowly bank clerk (Flavio Bucci) is denied a loan, he goes on a nihilistic crusade against one of the bank’s customers, a wealthy butcher (Ugo Tognazzi) with secrets to hide of his own.
