Director: Elio Petri - Story: Elio Petri, Tonino Guerra - Screenplay: Elio Petri, Carlo Romano with the collaboration of Tonino Guerra - Director of photography: Ennio Guarnieri - Camera operator: Luigi Bernardini - Camera assistant: Franco Marino - Set decorator: Giovanni Cecchi - Costumes: Graziella Urbinati - Sound recordist: Enzo Silvestri - Music: Ivan Vandor, conducted by Pierluigi Urbini - Film editor: Ruggero Mastroianni - First assistant director: Berto Pelosso - Production supervisors: Aldo Pace, Bruno Sassaroli - Script supervisor: Flavio Nicolini - Editing assistant: Wanda Olasio - Production: Goffredo Lombardo for Titanus/Metro - Distribution: Titanus; Censorship certificate: n. 36648 del 08/02/1962 - Lenght: 2718 m. - Country: Italy - Running time: ca. 99’

Cast: Salvo Randone (Cesare Conversi), Franco Sportelli (Amilcare), Regina Bianchi (Giulia), Vittorio Caprioli (Professor), Paolo Ferrari (Vinicio), Angela Minervini, Marcella Valeri, Renato Maddalena, Giulio Battiferri, Alberto Amato, Vittorio Bottone, Lando Buzzanca, Aldo Bini, Vincenzo Falanga, Vittorio Donati, Enrico Salvatore, Egidio Porzia, Silva Silvi

The film:

"The secret ambiton of Elio was to be a writer, not a director. 

He wrote a lot, pieces for newspapers and articles for literary rewievs […], then he wrote letters, plots and scripts. He was especially attached to one of them, entiled I giorni contati, written with Tonino Guerra, where the protagonist is inspired to his father. The leading role was performed by Salvo Randone, who had already worked with him in L’assassino. On the set, the two exchanged a lot of looks and very few words, many monosyllables and nods. The producer Goffredo Lombardo, puzzled, used to ask: 'but, do you understand eachother?'. The two understood eachother and they continued for much more films." 

[Paola Pegoraro Petri, in Id. (curated by), Restless Lucidity. A Tribute to Elio Petri, Museo Nazionale del Cinema, Torino 2007, p. 10]

The film restoration:

The digital restoration of I giorni contati was conducted by the Museo Nazionale del Cinema di Torino and by the Fondazione Cineteca di Bologna in collaboration with Titanus, from the best copy available today, a dupe positive conserved at the Cineteca di Bologna.

The copy was scanned at 2K resolution and digitally restored. The grading was supervised by Ennio Guarnieri, the film’s director of photography. From this same copy, the original soundtrack was obtained and digitally restored.

The restoration was carried out in 2011 at the laboratory L’Immagine Ritrovata in Bologna.

The preservation of the film is part of a project to valorize the works by Elio Petri, including cataloging and making available archival material belonging to the director, which was donated by his wife Paola to the Museo Nazionale del Cinema in 2007.

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