Property Is No Longer a Theft

Property Is No Longer a Theft
Film poster
Directed by	Elio Petri
Written by	Elio Petri Ugo Pirro
Produced by	Claudio Mancini
Starring	Flavio Bucci
Cinematography	Luigi Kuveiller
Edited by	Ruggero Mastroianni
Music by	Ennio Morricone
Release date	3 October 1973 (1973-10-03)
Running time	126 minutes
Countries	Italy France
Language	Italian

Property Is No Longer a Theft (Italian: La proprietà non è più un furto) is a 1973 Italian comedy film directed by Elio Petri. It was entered into the 23rd Berlin International Film Festival.

Plot

Total, a young bank cashier, sees his life, with its grey, dismal prospects, as disappointing. He envies the wealth of many of his clients, often accumulated though criminal or corrupt activities.

After surviving an armed robbery, he decides to start a new life, as a thief. Resigning from his job, he begins discreetly with small robberies in supermarkets, progressing to larger frauds, including of a former client, a butcher.

He enjoys the new clothes, new cars and new women but his neuroticism and social conscience pose problems.

Cast

• Ugo Tognazzi as The Butcher
• Flavio Bucci as Total
• Daria Nicolodi as Anita
• Salvo Randone as Total's father
• Mario Scaccia as Albertone
• Julien Guiomar as Bank director
• Jacques Herlin as Bank employee
• Gigi Proietti as Paco
• Orazio Orlando as Pirelli
• Ettore Garofolo as Bocio
• Gino Milli as Zaganè
• Cecilia Polizzi as Mafalda
• Luigi Antonio Guerra
• Ada Pometti

External links

• Property Is No Longer a Theft at IMDb