Investigation of a citizen above suspicion

Blu-ray 2013

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 pleasura...

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Edition:

Special edition

Description:

1 videodisc (115 minutes) : sound, colour ; 4 3/4 inches
polychrome
digital
optical
surround
Dolby Digital 5.1
wide screen
HDTV
video file
Blu-ray video
region A

Target Audience Note:

Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A

Other Title:

Indagine su un cittadino al di sopra di ogni sospetto
Indagine su un cittadino al di sopra di ogni sospetto (Motion picture) [Blu-ray]

Notes:

Originally released as a motion picture in 1970
Special features include Elio Petri (exercept from 1970 episode of Frech television program Le journal du cinéma, director Elio Petri talks to film critic Alexandre Astruc); On Investigation (interview with film scholar Camilla Zamboni about the film); Elio Petri: notes about a filmmaker (2005, an eighty-minute documentary on the director's career, featuring interviews with friends, collaborators, and filmmakers, including filmmakers Robert Altman, Bernardo Bertolucci, and Gillo Pontecorvo; production designer Dante Ferretti; screenwriter Tonino Guerra; composer Ennio Morricone; and actor Vanessa Redgrave; directed by Federico Bacci, Nicola Guarnei, and Stefano Leone), Investigation of a citizen named Volonté (2008, a sixty-minute documentary about actor Gian Maria Volenté); Music in his blood (2010, an interview with composer Ennio Morricone by Fabio Ferzetti), Trailers
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Art director, Carlo Egidi ; director of photography, Luigi Kuveiller ; editor, Ruggero Mastroianni ; production designer, Romano Cardarelli ; music, Ennio Morricone ; conductor, Bruno Nicolai
Gian Maria Volonté, Florinda Bolkan, Gianni Santuccio, Orazio Orlando, Sergio Tramonti, Arturo Dominici, Aldo Rendine, Massimo Foschi, Aleka Paizi, Vittorio Duse, Pino Patti, Salvo Randone
Blu-ray disc (requires Blu-ray player for playback) ; anamorphic wide screen format (1.85:1 aspect ratio) ; Dolby Digital 5.1
For private home use only
Audio tracks in Italian, with optional subtitles in English

Control Number:

3029347

UPC:

000200263731

Other Authors:

Bolkan, Florinda, 1941- actor
Cicogna, Marina, film producer
Columbia Pictures, production company
Criterion Collection (Firm), film distributor
Morricone, Ennio, composer (expression), interviewee (expression)
Orlando, Orazio, -1990, actor
Petri, Elio, 1929-1982, screenwriter, film director
Randone, Salvo, 1906-1991, actor
Santuccio, Gianni, 1911-1989, actor
Tramonti, Sergio, actor
Vera Film, production company
Volonté, Gian Maria, 1933-1994, actor

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