Elio Petri

Her memorable early film roles include the school teacher in Nino Manfredi's comedy Between Miracles (1971) and the female leads in Elio Petri's The Working Class Goes to Heaven (1971) and Vittorio De Sica's Lo chiameremo Andrea (We'll Call...

In this article: Lina Wertmuller, Mariangela Melato, Giancarlo Giannini, The Miracle Worker, Luigi Comencini, Pupi Avati, Luchino Visconti, and Claude Chabrol

...Lizzani, Sbatti il mostro in prima pagina (1972) by Marco Bellocchio, La Classe operaia va in paradiso (1972) by his friend Elio Petri and Il sospetto (1975 ) by Francisco Maselli. In 1968 he won a Silver Ribbon as best actor for A...

In this article: Gian Maria Volonte, Sergio Leone, For a Few Dollars More, A Fistful of Dollars, Ulysses' Gaze, Academy Award, William Shakespeare, and Carlo Goldoni

Elio Petri (January 29, 1929 - November 10, 1982) was an Academy Award-nominated Italian political filmmaker. Elio Petri was born in Rome on January 29, 1923 into a modest family, his father being a coppersmith. As the only son, he grew up...

In this article: The Working Class Goes to Heaven, Gian Maria Volonte, Tonino Guerra, Giuseppe De Santis, Marcello Mastroianni, Wilhelm Reich, Rome, The 10th Victim, and Bitter Rice

...underlings. It was the classic battle between art and artifice, with the latter often taking profit point. Sergio Martino and Elio Petri represent such minor, if still important, mid-period engineers. The former found fame creating...

In this article: The 10th Victim, Sergio Martino, Torso, Suzy Kendall, Ursula Andress, DVD, Marcello Mastroianni, Rome, and UK

Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion () is a 1970 Italian film crime drama directed by Elio Petri. It is a dramatic, psychological, black-humoured satire on corruption in high office, telling the story of a top police officer who kills...

In this article: Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion, Academy Award, 1970 Cannes Film Festival, and Kansas City Film Critics Circle Awards 1971

Incidentally, the last time Italy won two top prizes at the French festival was in 1972 when Francesco Rosi's "The Mattei Affair" and Elio Petri's "The Working Class Goes to Heaven" shared the Palme d'Or (then also for two films skewering...

In this article: Gomorra, Il Divo, Paolo Sorrentino, Italy, Giulio Andreotti, Matteo Garrone, and Rome

...storylines and a made-for-TV mentality, springs a new generation of auteurs inspired by politically engaged masters like Elio Petri and Francesco Rosi," enthused the Rome daily. Rosi and Petri both won a Palme d'Or in 1972, sharing top...

In this article: Il Divo, Italy, Silvio Berlusconi, Rome, Matteo Garrone, Paolo Sorrentino, Francesco Rosi, and Jury Prize

...screenplays for "Indagine Su Un Cittadino al Di Sopra Di Ogni Sospetto" (or "Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion"), directed by Elio Petri, and Vittorio De Sica's "Il Giardino dei Finzi Contini" (or "The Garden of the...

In this article: Ugo Pirro, Oscar, Rome, Walter Veltroni, Mafia, Gian Maria Volonte, Leonardo Sciascia, Vittorio De Sica, and Lina Wertmuller

...drama about Italian partisans fighting the Nazis and starring Gina Lollobrigida. In 1968 Pirro began collaborating with director Elio Petri and the two have worked on several well-received, politically-themed films including Investigation...

In this article: Ugo Pirro, Academy Award, The Garden of the Finzi-Continis, Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion, Rome, Giorgio Bassani, Vittorio De Sica, Gina Lollobrigida, and Salerno

...(1963), and Blood and Black Lace (1964). As a camera operator, he worked on such films as Bava's Black Sunday '' (1960), Elio Petri's Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion'' (1970), Lucio Fulci's A Lizard in a Woman's Skin (1971),...

In this article: Mario Bava, Ubaldo Terzano, Blood and Black Lace, Whip and the Body, Black Sunday, Dario Argento, Lucio Fulci, Paul Morrissey, and Black Sabbath