Elio Petri

Elio Petri (born January 29, 1929 in Rome , † November 10, 1982 ibid) was an Italian film director and screenwriter .

Life

Petri was initially a film critic and in the late 1940s the organizer of the cultural activities of the Italian Communist Party . In the early 1950s he began to write screenplays, was active as a documentary filmmaker and worked as an assistant director for Giuseppe De Santis . In 1961 he got the chance to make his directorial debut. With Dare Alfredo a murder? he was also invited to the competition at the 1961 Berlinale . After several commissions, including the interesting by Robert Sheckley incurred The tenth victim , he took in 1967 with his film Two coffins on order at the Film Festival in Cannes in 1967 in part and there received the award for best screenplay. At the 1970 Cannes International Film Festival he received the Special Jury Prize and the FIPRESCI Prize for his film Investigations against a Citizen Above Suspicion . In 1972 he was able to win the main prize of the Cannes festival, the Grand Prix , with The Path of the Working Class to Paradise . The film Investigations against a Citizen of the Left Filmmaker who is above suspicion won an Oscar in 1971 in the category of Best Foreign Language Film . His films are often "determined by incurable pessimism, which is enriched with metaphysical thoughts and shown with expressionistic stylistic devices".

Elio Petri died of cancer in 1982.

Filmography

Director, screenplay

• 1954: Nasce un campione (short film)
• 1957: I sette contadini (documentary, short film)
• 1961: Do you trust Alfredo to murder? (L'assassino)
• 1963: I giorni contati
• 1963: Il maestro di Vigevano
• 1964: Nudi per vivere (documentary, as Elio Montesti )
• 1964: Marriage for three (Alta infedeltà) (one episode)
• 1965: The tenth sacrifice (La decima vittima)
• 1967: Two coffins to order (A ciascuno il suo)
• 1968: The Cursed House (Un tranquillo posto di campagna)
• 1970: Investigations against a citizen who is above suspicion (Indagine su un cittadino al di sopra di ogni sospetto)
• 1970: Documenti su Giuseppe Pinelli (co-director)
• 1971: The way of the working class to paradise (La classe operaia va in paradiso)
• 1973: La proprietà non è più un furto
• 1976: Todo modo
• 1978: Le mani sporche
• 1979: Buone note

script

• 1952: Point 11 (Roma ore 11) - directed by Giuseppe De Santis
• 1953: Curse of Beauty (Un marito per Anna Zaccheo) - directed by Giuseppe De Santis
• 1954: The Verrufenen (Donne proibite) - directed by Giuseppe Amato
• 1954: Nasce un campione (short film)
• 1954: Day of Love (Giorni d'amore) - directed by Giuseppe De Santis and Leopoldo Savona
• 1955: Quando tramonta il sole - directed by Guido Brignone
• 1957: I sette contadini (documentary, short film)
• 1957: Women and Wolves (Uomini e lupi) - directed by Giuseppe De Santis and Leopoldo Savona
• 1958: Street of Passion (La strada lunga un anno) - directed by Giuseppe De Santis
• 1959: Wind of the South (Vento del sud) - directed by Enzo Provenzale
• 1959: Un ettaro di cielo - directed by Aglauco Casadio
• 1959: Vlak bez voznog reda - directed by Veljko Bulajić
• 1959: The Nights Are Full of Danger (Le notti dei Teddy Boys) - directed by Leopoldo Savona
• 1960: La garçonnière - directed by Giuseppe De Santis
• 1960: L'impiegato - directed by Gianni Puccini
• 1960: Il carro armato dell'8 September - directed by Gianni Puccini
• 1961: The Hunchback of Rome (Il gobbo) - directed by Carlo Lizzani
• 1963: I mostri - directed by Dino Risi

Works

• Roma ore 11 (Rome & Milan: Sellerio Editore Palermo, 1956; 2004).
• L'assassino (Milan: Zibetti, 1962). With Tonino Guerra.
• Indagine su un cittadino al di sopra ogni sospetto (Rome: Tindalo, 1970). With Ugo Pirro.
• La proprietà non è più un furto (Milan: Bompiani, 1973). With Ugo Pirro.
• Scritti di cinema e di vita , ed. By Jean A. Gili (Rome: Bulzoni Editore, 2007).
• Writings On Cinema & Life , ed. By Jean A. Gili (New York: Contra Mundum Press, 2013).

DVD

• Elio Petri Edition , 3 films, 4 DVDs in German, Italian, English, 303 minutes, Koch Media 2013

Web links

• Website with a detailed biography
• Elio Petri in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Elio Petri on MyMovies (Italian).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Fabio Benincasa on Petri
2. ^ Roberto Poppi: Dizionario del cinema italiano, I registi. Rome, Gremese 2002, pp. 332/333
3. ↑ Petri bei Italica ( Memento of the original from February 1, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.