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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 Volonte´) 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.
Original Release
02/12/1970
US Release
12/20/1970
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Cast
Name | Character |
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Gian Maria Volonté | Dottore |
Florinda Bolkan | Augusta Terzi |
Gianni Santuccio | Questore / Police Prefect |
Orazio Orlando | Brigadiere Biglia / Biglia |
Sergio Tramonti | Antonio Pace |
Arturo Dominici | Mangani |
Aldo Rendine | Nicola Panunzio |
Massimo Foschi | Marito Terzi / Augusta's Husband |
Aleka Paizi | Governante / Governess |
Vittorio Duse | Canes |
Directors
Writers
Cast
Name | Character |
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Gian Maria Volonté | Dottore |
Florinda Bolkan | Augusta Terzi |
Gianni Santuccio | Questore / Police Prefect |
Orazio Orlando | Brigadiere Biglia / Biglia |
Sergio Tramonti | Antonio Pace |
Arturo Dominici | Mangani |
Aldo Rendine | Nicola Panunzio |
Massimo Foschi | Marito Terzi / Augusta's Husband |
Aleka Paizi | Governante / Governess |
Vittorio Duse | Canes |
Pino Patti | Capo Reparto Intercettazioni / Wiretapping Dep. Head |
Salvo Randone | Plumber / Idraulico |
Giuseppe Licastro | |
Filippo De Gara | Agente |
Fulvio Grimaldi | Patanè |
Ugo Adinolfi | Agente |
Franco Marletta | Agente |
Giacomo Bellini | |
Giuseppe Terranova | |
Vincenzo Falanga | Pallottella |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Daniele Senatore | Producer |
John Bradley | Producer |
Editors
Year | Type | Category | Won |
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1972 | Oscar | Best Writing, Story and Screenplay Based on Factual Material or Material Not Previously Published or Produced | Nominated |
1971 | Oscar | Best Foreign Language Film | Won |
1971 | Golden Globe | Best Foreign-Language Foreign Film | Nominated |