Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion

Name: Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion
Director: Elio Petri
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Released: 1970
Duration: 111 min

Italian (Indagine su un cittadino al di sopra di ogni sospetto)

1970 · Directed by Elio Petri · 111 min

Audience: 8.1

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In 1970s Rome, a senior police official is promoted to head the political division. The film follows him through a feverish, satirical portrait of power, vanity and bureaucracy, carried by Gian Maria Volonté's performance and Ennio Morricone's score.

Elio PetriDirector · Writer
Gian Maria VolontéActoras Dottore
Florinda BolkanActoras Augusta Terzi
Gianni SantuccioActoras Police Prefect
Orazio OrlandoActoras Biglia
Sergio TramontiActoras Antonio Pace
Arturo DominiciActoras Mangani
Aldo RendineActoras Nicola Panunzio
Massimo FoschiActoras Augusta's Husband
Ennio MorriconeComposer
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Luigi KuveillerCinematographer
Ugo PirroWriter
Ruggero MastroianniEditor
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Carlo EgidiProduction designer

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Why it matters in cinema history

A central film of the Italian political cinema of the late 1960s and early 1970s, and a key example of a genre thriller bent into allegory and satire.

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Watch it as a portrait of a personality and an institution rather than as a conventional police procedural.

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