Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion
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 Volontè) 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.
Special Features
- New 4K digital film restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
- Archival interview with director Elio Petri, conducted by critic and filmmaker Alexandre Astruc
- Elio Petri: Notes About a Filmmaker (2005), a ninety-minute documentary on the director’s career, featuring interviews with friends, collaborators, and filmmakers
- New interview with film scholar Camilla Zamboni
- Investigation of a Citizen Named Volontè (2008), a fifty-minute documentary about actor Gian Maria Volontè
- Music in His Blood, an interview with composer Ennio Morricone from 2010, conducted by film critic Fabio Ferzetti
- Trailers
- New English subtitle translation
- PLUS: An essay by film scholar Evan Calder Williams and excerpts from a 2001 book by screenwriter Ugo Pirro
New cover by Fred Davis
Special Features
- New 4K digital film restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
- Archival interview with director Elio Petri, conducted by critic and filmmaker Alexandre Astruc
- Elio Petri: Notes About a Filmmaker (2005), a ninety-minute documentary on the director’s career, featuring interviews with friends, collaborators, and filmmakers
- New interview with film scholar Camilla Zamboni
- Investigation of a Citizen Named Volontè (2008), a fifty-minute documentary about actor Gian Maria Volontè
- Music in His Blood, an interview with composer Ennio Morricone from 2010, conducted by film critic Fabio Ferzetti
- Trailers
- New English subtitle translation
- PLUS: An essay by film scholar Evan Calder Williams and excerpts from a 2001 book by screenwriter Ugo Pirro
New cover by Fred Davis
Cast
- Gian Maria Volontè
- Chief Inspector
- Florinda Bolkan
- Augusta Terzi
- Gianni Santuccio
- Police commissioner
- Orazio Orlando
- Sergeant Biglia
- Sergio Tramonti
- Antonio Pace
- Arturo Dominici
- Mangani
- Aldo Rendine
- Nicola Panunzio
- Massimo Foschi
- Augusta’s husband
- Aleka Paizi
- Chief inspector’s maid
- Vittorio Duse
- Canes
- Salvo Randone
- Plumber
- Fulvio Grimaldi
- Patanè, the journalist
- Pino Patti
- Head of wiretapping
Credits
- Director
- Elio Petri
- Writers
- Ugo Pirro
- Writers
- Elio Petri
- Producers
- Marina Cicogna
- Producers
- Daniele Senatore
- Director of photography
- Luigi Kuveiller
- Editor
- Ruggero Mastroianni
- Production design
- Romano Cardarelli
- Art director
- Carlo Egidi
- Music
- Ennio Morricone
- Costumes
- Angela Sammaciccia
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