We Still Kill the Old Way

Date
Hour
Place
07/08
19:00
THE AMBER HALL


A ciascuno il suo
reż|dir Elio Petri | IT | 1967 | 99 min
prod|pro Giuseppe Zaccariello scen|wr Elio Petri, Ugo Pirro zdj|ph Luigi Kuveiller muz|mus Luis Bacalov mon|ed Ruggero Mastroianni ob|cast Gabriele Ferzetti, Irene Papas, Luigi Pistilli, Gian Maria Volonte, Salvo Randone dys|dis filmbankmedia

DESCRIPTION

“To Each His Own” (suum cuique) is a latin maxim from the L’Osservatore Romano vignette. The letters, cut out from this magazine, were used in a death threatening anonymous letter to a pharmacist in a small Sicilian town. There are only three L’Osservatore Romano subscribers in the area, and the next day the pharmacist dies on a hunt. The situation gives no peace of mind to a left-wing teacher who is undertaking a private investigation. Elio Petri’s screenplay, for which he was awarded in Cannes (1967), was based on the motifs of Leonard Sciascia’s famous novel. Petri was one of the first Italian directors to show the close links between politics, the Church and mafia.


AWARDS
1967 Cannes IFF – nominated for Palme d'Or
1967 Cannes IFF – Award for Best Screenplay
1968 Golden Globes Italy – Award for Best Actor

DIRECTOR
Elio Petri, actually Eraclio Petri (1929-1982) initially an Italian film critic, later a screenwriter and director. An activist and communist activist, he left the party after the USSR invasion of Hungary in 1956. His films have been very successful, among others he won an Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film - "Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion " (1970) and a Palme d'Or at the 25th. Cannes IFF for "The Working Class Goes to Heaven" (1971). He made films about political and social issues, often with elements of surrealism, irony and grotesque.

FILMOGRAPHY
1979 Dobre wiadomości|Buone notizie|Good News
1976 Wszelkim sposobem|Todo modo|One Way or Another
1973 Własność nie pochodzi już z kradzieży|La proprietà non è più un furto|Property Is No Longer a Theft
1971 Klasa robotnicza idzie do raju|La classe operaia va in paradiso|The Working Class Goes to Heaven
1970 Śledztwo w sprawie obywatela poza wszelkim podejrzeniem|Indagine su un cittadino al di sopra di ogni sospetto|Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion
1968 Spokojne miejsce na wsi|Un tranquillo posto di campagna|A Quiet Place in the Country
1967 Każdemu swoje|A ciascuno il suo|To Each His Own
1965 Dziesiąta ofiara|La decima vittima|The Tenth Victim
1963 Nauczyciel z Vigevano|Il maestro di Vigevano|The Teacher from Vigevano
1962 Dni są policzone|I giorni contati|His Days Are Numbered
1961 Zabójca|L'assassino|The Assassin

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