Although he directed a dozen films and won, among many major awards, a foreign film Oscar for "Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion," Elio Petri has been rather scandalously forgotten since his ...

The Karlovy Vary Intl. Film Festival, Central and Eastern Europe’s leading movie event, will pay tribute to Italian filmmaker Elio Petri, Indian moviemaker Anurag Kashyap, and British director and ...

Eraclio "Elio" Petri (29 January 1929—10 November 1982) was an Italian writer and director known for his political dramas and thrillers, such as "Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion" (1970), "A ...

The work of Elio Petri, one of Italy’s most provocative directors of the 1960s and ‘70s, receives unique and overdue exposure this month when his Oscar-winning “Investigation of a Citizen Above ...

The 1971 Oscar-winning Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion will be shown as part of a touring retrospective of movies by acclaimed director Elio Petri. Italian Outcast: The Films of Elio Petri ...

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