Directed by Elio Petri, Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion (1970) is an Academy Award winning Italian crime drama examining power, authority, and institutional corruption. Winner of the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film, the movie follows a high-ranking police official who commits a murder and then tests whether the system will hold him accountable. Blending satire with psychological tension, it stands as a landmark of politically charged European cinema.

Criterion Collection

The provocative Italian filmmaker Elio Petris 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, Petris kinetic portrait of surreal bureaucracy is a perversely pleasurable rendering of controlled chaos.

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A high-ranking police inspector kills his mistress and deliberately plants clues indicating his responsibility for the crime in a sardonic test to prove that he is above suspicion.

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Version: : Blu-Ray (import)

Språk : Italian

EAN : 5050629074437

Label : Criterion Collection

Distributor : Criterion Collection

Inspelningsår : 1970

Regissör : Elio Petri

imdb-rating : 8

Längd : 1h 55m

Cast : Gian Maria Volontè, Florinda Bolkan, Gianni Santuccio