Bibliograph

Investigation of a citizen above suspicion, Columbia Pictures ; screenplay by Ugo Pirro and Elio Petri ; produced by Daniele Senatore ; directed by Elio Petri

Type

Label

Investigation of a citizen above suspicion, Columbia Pictures ; screenplay by Ugo Pirro and Elio Petri ; produced by Daniele Senatore ; directed by Elio Petri

Language

ita

Characteristic

videorecording

Main title

Investigation of a citizen above suspicion

Oclc number

863243026

Responsibility statement

Columbia Pictures ; screenplay by Ugo Pirro and Elio Petri ; produced by Daniele Senatore ; directed by Elio Petri

Runtime

115

Summary

Elio Petri's acclaimed Oscar-winning thriller. Petri maintains a tricky balance between absurdity and realism in telling the Kafkaesque tale of a Roman police inspector investigating a heinous crime-which he committed himself. Both a penetrating character study and a disturbing commentary on the draconian crackdowns by the Italian government in the late 1960s and early '70s, Petri's kinetic portrait of surreal bureaucracy is a perversely pleasurable rendering of controlled chaos

Technique

live action

Classification