La decima vittima

Elio Petri

Elio Petri (Rome, 1929-1982) worked as a film critic for “l’Unità.” In 1952 he collaborated on the screenplay of Roma ore 11 by Giuseppe De Santis and in 1961 he debuted as a director with the feature film The Assassin. In 1967 his film We Still Kill the Old Way (1967) marked the beginning of his collaboration with Gian Maria Volontè and with the screenwriter Ugo Pirro, with whom he made Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion (1970, Oscar for Best foreign film and Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival) and The Working Class Goes to Heaven (1971, Golden Palm at the Cannes Film Festival).

FILMOGRAFIA

Nasce un campione (cm, doc., 1954), I sette contadini (cm, doc., 1957), L’assassino (The Assassin, 1961), I giorni contati (1962), Il maestro di Vigevano (The Teacher from Vigevano, 1963), La decima vittima (The Tenth Victim, 1965), A ciascuno il suo (We Still Kill the Old Way, 1967), Un tranquillo posto di campagna (1968), Indagine su un  cittadino al di sopra di ogni sospetto (Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion, 1970), Documenti su Giuseppe Pinelli (ep. Ipotesi su Giuseppe Pinelli, doc., 1970), La classe
operaia va in Paradiso (The Working Class Goes to Heaven, 1971), La proprietà non è più un furto (Property Is No Longer a Theft, 1973), Todo modo (1976), Le mani sporche (TV, 1978), Buone notizie (1979).