Two coffins to order

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Movie
German title Two coffins to order
Original title A ciascuno il suo
Country of production Italy
original language Italian
Publishing year 1967
length 89 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Elio Petri
script Elio Petri , Ugo Pirro
production Giuseppe Zaccariello
music Luis Bacalov
camera Luigi Kuveiller
cut Ruggero Mastroianni
occupation

Two coffins to order (original title: A ciascuno il suo ) is an Italian crime film / political thriller by director Elio Petri from 1967 with Gian Maria Volonté and Irene Papas in the leading roles, based on the novel of the same name by Leonardo Sciascia .

action

The death threats against the local pharmacist Arturo Manno do not surprise any of his friends, as he is known around town as Casanova. However, they don't take them really seriously either until Manno and his friend Dr. Antonio Roscio, murdered in the early morning hunt. The suspicion falls on the father and the two brothers of a minor with whom Manno is said to have had a relationship. But Professor Laurana, who had previously seen one of the ransom letters, does not believe in the guilt of the illiterate people from a shabby district, as the letters of the text were cut out from the Osservatore Romano - a Christian newspaper that has few subscribers in the area.

He asks his friend, lawyer Rosello, to take care of the arrested persons and begins his own research, also motivated by his secret love for the widow of one of the murdered - Luisa Roscio. His trail leads him to Palermo, but he does not notice that Luisa Roscio does not reciprocate his feelings, nor that some of his detective work encounter incomprehension. He only survives the removal by Luisa for a short time because he is murdered and his body disappears. Life in his home village continues unchanged, sustained by the close connection between Luisa Roscio and the lawyer Rosello.

background

Two coffins to order ( A ciascuno al suo ) was the first film based on a novel by Leonardo Sciascia and is set in Sicily , Sciascia's homeland. In 1976 there was another collaboration between Elio Petri and Leonardo Sciascia in Todo modo . Together with the film adaptations of other of his novels, The Day of the Owl by Damiano Damiani in 1968, whose book was made before A ciascuno al suo , and The Power and Its Price by Francesco Rosi in 1976, a complex picture of the political situation in Italy in the 1960s emerged and 70s.

Awards

Cannes International Film Festival 1967

  • Award for the best script
  • Nomination for the golden palm

Sindacato Nazionale Giornalisti Cinematografici Italiani 1968

  • Award (silver ribbon) for the best leading actor, Gian Maria Volonté
  • Award (silver ribbon) for the director Elio Petri
  • Award (silver ribbon) for the best supporting actor, Gabriele Ferzetti
  • Award (silver ribbon) for the best script

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