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Film of the Week: Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion

Elio Petri

With Gian Maria Volonte, Florinda Bolkan, Gianni Santuccio

Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion is one of the few Italian films to have won a splendid double: Prinx the Grand Jury Prize at Cannes and the Academy Award as best foreign film, obtained mainly through collaboration with Ugo Pirro, Elio Petri, and Gian Maria Volonte. And 'one of the most tragic events film ever made in Italy in the last six thousand years.

The protagonist, the new head of the homicide section of Rome, is afflicted by a strange kind of obsession, bordering on neurosis: he wants to test the extent to which its position can guarantee impunity before the eyes of the law. The film opens with a crime against a young and beautiful prostitute with whom he spent long nights of pleasure when he was not in service. Just committed the fact, however, has a singular behavior to say the least: leave obvious evidence of its passage at the crime scene (fingerprints, tie threads of fabric, etc ...), then calls the police and report the murder. Back in Central, will monitor the case, the investigation was heavily manipulated, bring on the trail of an innocent child: Anthony Pace, alleged member of a subversive political movement.

In the end, when the truth is coming to the surface, something unexpected happens. Of course, we will certainly ruin the surprise for us.

Rather, it is interesting to note that claimed the same in a Petri wrote years ago appeared in The adventurous history of Italian cinema, than the perennial relevance of a film like Investigation of a Citizen above suspicion, because appears to relate to a common part to all of us : "I believe that if Survey still gets approval it is because there is something about our inner selves. Each has its share of power and tends to pursue it in an authoritarian manner, because one of us is drawn into a repressive society that constantly demand a paternal presence, making all of us children. "

Investigation of a Citizen above all suspicion is the film that this week we have chosen for you, and you can not miss it for anything in the world. E 'number 575 of the video library of Daedalus.

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