DUAL-FORMAT BLU-RAY AND DVD SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
New 4K digital restoration by the Film Foundation, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
Archival interview with director Elio Petri, conducted by critic and filmmaker Alexandre Astruc
Elio Petri: Notes About a Filmmaker (2005), a ninety-minute documentary on the director’s career, featuring interviews with friends, collaborators, and filmmakers
New interview with film scholar Camilla Zamboni
Investigation of a Citizen Named Volonté (2008), a fifty-minute documentary about actor Gian Maria Volonté
Music in His Blood, an interview with composer Ennio Morricone from 2010, conducted by film critic Fabio Ferzetti
Trailers
New English subtitle translation
One Blu-ray and two DVDs, with all content available in both formats
PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by film scholar Evan Calder Williams and excerpts from a 2001 book by author and screenwriter Ugo Pirro
Investigation Of A Citizen Above Suspicion (Criterion Collection) (1970) On Blu-Ray
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Actor: Gian Maria Volonté, Florinda Bolkan, Gianni Santuccio, Orazio Orlando, Sergio Tramonti
Director: Elio Petri
Genre: Foreign Video - Italian
Year: 1970
Studio: Criterion Collection
Length: 115
Released: December 3, 2013
Rating: GRestricted (MPAA Rating)
Format: Blu-Ray
Misc: Color
Language: Italian
Subtitles : English
DESCRIPTION:
The provocative Italian filmmaker Elio Petri’s most internationally acclaimed work is this remarkable, visceral, Oscar-winning thriller. Petri maintains a tricky balance between absurdity and realism in telling the Kafkaesque tale of a Roman police inspector (A Fistful of Dollars’s Gian Maria Volonté, in a commanding performance) 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.
Special Features
Actor: Gian Maria Volonté, Florinda Bolkan, Gianni Santuccio, Orazio Orlando, Sergio Tramonti
Director: Elio Petri
Genre: Foreign Video - Italian
Year: 1970
Studio: Criterion Collection
Length: 115
Released: December 3, 2013
Rating: GRestricted (MPAA Rating)
Format: Blu-Ray
Misc: Color
Language: Italian
Subtitles : English
DESCRIPTION:
The provocative Italian filmmaker Elio Petri’s most internationally acclaimed work is this remarkable, visceral, Oscar-winning thriller. Petri maintains a tricky balance between absurdity and realism in telling the Kafkaesque tale of a Roman police inspector (A Fistful of Dollars’s Gian Maria Volonté, in a commanding performance) 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.
Special Features
DUAL-FORMAT BLU-RAY AND DVD SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
New 4K digital restoration by the Film Foundation, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
Archival interview with director Elio Petri, conducted by critic and filmmaker Alexandre Astruc
Elio Petri: Notes About a Filmmaker (2005), a ninety-minute documentary on the director’s career, featuring interviews with friends, collaborators, and filmmakers
New interview with film scholar Camilla Zamboni
Investigation of a Citizen Named Volonté (2008), a fifty-minute documentary about actor Gian Maria Volonté
Music in His Blood, an interview with composer Ennio Morricone from 2010, conducted by film critic Fabio Ferzetti
Trailers
New English subtitle translation
One Blu-ray and two DVDs, with all content available in both formats
PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by film scholar Evan Calder Williams and excerpts from a 2001 book by author and screenwriter Ugo Pirro
| Product Name | Investigation Of A Citizen Above Suspicion (Criterion Collection) (1970) On Blu-Ray |
|---|---|
| This item is returnable | No |
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