About this Event
Italy Through its Cinema
Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion
Our journey through Italian cinema continues into one of the country’s darkest and most turbulent chapters.
With Elio Petri’s Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion (1970), we enter the era of the Years of Lead - a period marked by political extremism, social unrest, terrorism and a profound mistrust of institutions and authority.
Winner of the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, Petri’s provocative masterpiece follows a senior police inspector who commits a M**der and deliberately leaves behind evidence of his guilt, convinced that his position places him beyond suspicion.
Darkly satirical, unsettling and fiercely political, Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion captures the paranoia and contradictions of an Italy entering a new and volatile decade.
Join us as Italy Through Its Cinema continues - from post-war reconstruction and the economic boom into the political turmoil of the 1970s, with one of Italian cinema’s most audacious films.
Event venue & nearby stays
The Cinema Museum, 2 Renfrew Road, London, United Kingdom
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