| Description |
1 videodisc (115 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. |
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digital optical rda |
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video file Blu-Ray rda |
| Series |
Criterion collection (Blu-ray discs) ; 682.
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| System Details |
Blu-ray, widescreen; requires Blu-ray player. |
| Language |
Italian dialogue with optional English subtitles. |
| Note |
Title from container. |
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Originally released as a motion picture in 1970. |
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Special features include Elio Petri (exercept from 1970 episode of Frech television program Le journal du cinéma, director Elio Petri talks to film critic Alexandre Astruc); On Investigation (interview with film scholar Camilla Zamboni about the film); Elio Petri: notes about a filmmaker (2005, an eighty-minute documentary on the director's career, featuring interviews with friends, collaborators, and filmmakers, including filmmakers Robert Altman, Bernardo Bertolucci, and Gillo Pontecorvo; production designer Dante Ferretti; screenwriter Tonino Guerra; composer Ennio Morricone; and actor Vanessa Redgrave; directed by Federico Bacci, Nicola Guarnei, and Stefano Leone), Investigation of a citizen named Volonté (2008, a sixty-minute documentary about actor Gian Maria Volenté); Music in his blood (2010, an interview with composer Ennio Morricone by Fabio Ferzetti), Trailers. |
| Cast |
Gian Maria Volonté, Florinda Bolkan, Gianni Santuccio, Orazio Orlando, Sergio Tramonti, Arturo Dominici, Aldo Rendine, Massimo Foschi, Aleka Paizi, Vittorio Duse, Pino Patti, Salvo Randone. |
| Credits |
Art director, Carlo Egidi ; director of photography, Luigi Kuveiller ; editor, Ruggero Mastroianni ; production designer, Romano Cardarelli ; music, Ennio Morricone ; conductor, Bruno Nicolai. |
| Summary |
Elio Petri's acclaimed Oscar-winning thriller. Petri maintains a tricky balance between absurdity and realism in telling the Kafkaesque tale of a Roman police inspector investigating a heinous crime-which he committed himself. Both a penetrating character study and a disturbing commentary on the draconian crackdowns by the Italian government in the late 1960s and early '70s, Petri's kinetic portrait of surreal bureaucracy is a perversely pleasurable rendering of controlled chaos. |
| Subject |
Criminal investigation -- Italy -- Drama -- Videodiscs.
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| Genre |
Foreign films, Italian.
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Feature films Italy.
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Crime films.
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Fiction films.
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Feature films.
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Blu-ray discs.
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| Added Author |
Petri, Elio, 1929-1982, screenwriter, film director.
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Cicogna, Marina, film producer.
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Volonté, Gian Maria, 1933- actor.
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Bolkan, Florinda, 1941- actor.
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Randone, Salvo, 1906-1991, actor.
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Tramonti, Sergio, actor.
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Orlando, Orazio, -1990, actor.
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Santuccio, Gianni, 1911-1989, actor.
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Morricone, Ennio, composer (expression), interviewee (expression)
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Columbia Pictures, production company.
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Vera Film, production company.
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Criterion Collection (Firm), film distributor.
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| Added Title |
Indagine su un cittadino al di sopra di ogni sospetto |
| Note |
Title on container: Investigation of a citizen above suspicion |
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