Directed by:
Elio PetriCinematography:
Luigi KuveillerComposer:
Ennio MorriconeCast:
Gian Maria Volonté, Florinda Bolkan, Arturo Dominici, Gianfranco Barra, Vincenzo Falanga, Salvo Randone, Massimo Foschi, Roberto Bonanni, Alfonso Giganti (more)VOD (1)
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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 Volonté) investigating a heinous crime - which he himself committed. Both a compelling character study and a disturbing commentary on the draconian government crackdowns in Italy in the late 1960s and early ’70s, Petri’s kinetic portrait of surreal bureaucracy is a perversely pleasurable rendering of controlled chaos. (Criterion)
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