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- It is a psychological, black-humored satire on corruption in high office, telling the story of a top police officer who kills his mistress, and then tests whether the police would charge him for this crime.
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Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion (Italian: Indagine su un cittadino al di sopra di ogni sospetto) is a 1970 Italian satirical crime thriller film directed by Elio Petri, starring Gian Maria Volonté and Florinda Bolkan.
Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion: Directed by Elio Petri. With Gian Maria Volontè, Florinda Bolkan, Gianni Santuccio, Orazio Orlando. A high-ranking police inspector murders his mistress and - in a sardonic test to prove that he is above suspicion - deliberately plants clues that indicate his responsibility for the crime.
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- Crime, Drama
- Elio Petri
- 1970-09-09
Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion. The provocative Italian filmmaker Elio Petri’s most internationally acclaimed work is this remarkable, visceral, Oscar-winning thriller.
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Elio Petri’s “Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion” tells this story with a clever mixture of psychology and suspense, burrowing into the inspector’s paranoia while it rushes headlong into the investigation (something like “Z“).
Sep 13, 2009 · The final scene in Elio Petri’s Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion (Indagine su un cittadino al di sopra di ogni sospetto, 1970) concludes with a quote from Franz Kafka’s The Trial (Der Prozess, 1925): “Whatever he may seem to us, he is yet a servant of the Law; that is, he belongs to…
Jan 3, 2021 · Criterion’s latest addition to their ever-growing UK collection is Elio Petri’s Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion. It’s a title I’d heard of but knew very little about.
Feb 28, 2017 · Elio Petri’s peculiar—and peculiarly brilliant—1970 film, Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion, is a lesson in dual forms. In the first scene, when the film’s nameless protagonist enters Augusta’s home, the tone is difficult to pin down.
