Dillinger Is Dead
In this magnificently inscrutable late-sixties masterpiece, Marco Ferreri, one of European cinema’s most idiosyncratic auteurs, takes us through the looking glass to one seemingly routine night in the life of an Italian gas mask designer, played, in a tour de force performance, by New Wave icon Michel Piccoli. In his claustrophobic mod home, he pampers his pill-popping wife, seduces his maid, and uncovers a gun that may have once been owned by John Dillinger—and then things get even stranger. A surreal political missive about social malaise, Dillinger Is Dead (Dillinger è morto) finds absurdity in the mundane. It is a singular experience, both illogical and grandly existential.
Special Features
- New, restored high-definition digital transfer, supervised and approved by director of photography Mario Vulpiani
- New video interviews with actor Michel Piccoli and Italian film historian Adriano Aprà
- Excerpts from a 1997 roundtable discussion about director Marco Ferreri, with filmmakers Bernardo Bertolucci and Francesco Rosi and film historian Aldo Tassone, including clips of interviews with Ferreri
- Theatrical trailer
- New and improved subtitle translation
- PLUS: An essay by film critic Michael Joshua Rowin and a selection of reprinted interviews with Ferreri
New cover by Neil Kellerhouse
Special Features
- New, restored high-definition digital transfer, supervised and approved by director of photography Mario Vulpiani
- New video interviews with actor Michel Piccoli and Italian film historian Adriano Aprà
- Excerpts from a 1997 roundtable discussion about director Marco Ferreri, with filmmakers Bernardo Bertolucci and Francesco Rosi and film historian Aldo Tassone, including clips of interviews with Ferreri
- Theatrical trailer
- New and improved subtitle translation
- PLUS: An essay by film critic Michael Joshua Rowin and a selection of reprinted interviews with Ferreri
New cover by Neil Kellerhouse
Cast
- Michel Piccoli
- Man
- Anita Pallenberg
- His wife
- Gino Lavagetto
- Colleague
- Carla Petrillo
- Woman in home movie
- Mario Jannilli
- Violinist in home movie
- Annie Girardot
- Sabina, the maid
Credits
- Director
- Marco Ferreri
- Screenplay
- Marco Ferreri
- Screenplay
- Sergio Bazzini
- Producer
- Ever Haggiag
- Producer
- Alfred Levy
- Music
- Teo Usuelli
- Cinematography
- Mario Vulpiani
- Editing
- Mirella Mercio
- Art director
- Nicola Tamburo
- Sound
- Carlo Diotallevi
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