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Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion is a 1970 Italian satirical crime thriller film directed by Elio Petri, starring Gian Maria Volonté and Florinda Bolkan. It is a psychological, black-humored satire on corruption in high office, telling the story of a top police officer who kills his mistress, and then tests whether the police would charge him for this crime. He begins manipulating the investigation by…
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The early 1970s marked a zenith for politically charged European cinema, particularly in Italy, where filmmakers dissected the rot festering beneath the Christian Democrat-led First Republic with surgical precision. From Francesco Rosi’s investigative exposés to the absurdist satire of Dario Fo, Italian auteurs transformed national disillusionment into art. Yet few works captured the era’s paranoia and institutional…More