Decima vittima, La (1965)
Tenth Victim, The
Director: Elio Petri – Story: from the short story The Seventh Victim (1953) by Robert Sheckley; Screenplay: Elio Petri, Ennio Flaiano, Tonino Guerra, Giorgio Salvioni - Director of photography (Eastman- scope): Gianni Di Venanzo - Set decoration: Piero Poletto - Film editor: Ruggero Mastroianni - Sound editor: Piero Piccioni - Production: Carlo Ponti (Champion Compagnia Cinematografica), Les Film Concordia (Parigi) – Country: Italy/France - Running time: 92’
Cast: Marcello Mastroianni (Marcello Poletti), Ursula Andress (Caroline Meredith), Elsa Martinelli (Olga), Salvo Randone (Professor), Massimo Serato, Lucie Bonifassy, Georges Wang, Milo Quesada
The film:
"I have had an idea of a sci-fi film based on the Robert Sheckley’s novel since 1962, but nobody wanted to produce it. Then Marcello Mastroianni liked it and, at the end, Ponti accepted it. He didn’t want to make a film with me and a sci-fi film either, he pulled faces , but he wanted to produce a film with Marcello.
At the beginning Tonino Guerra was my supporter, then Ennio Flaiano joined the team.
Flaiano has been an adorable, enchanting man with me. We spent some wonderful time together doing nothing. Talking about life, the time going by, the society, the literature: everything but not work. Work was, for him, the last of the topics. And this made him even more pleasant."
[Elio Petri, in Paola Pegoraro Petri (curated by), Lucidità inquieta. Il cinema di Elio Petri, Museo Nazionale del Cinema, Torino 2007, p. 72]
The film restoration:
The digital restoration of La decima vittima was conducted by Museo Nazionale del Cinema di Torino with Fondazione Cineteca di Bologna, and it was based on the original negatives conserved by Surf Film, copyright owner. The negative print was scanned at 2K resolution and digitally restored. A positive print from the era, conserved at the Fondazione Cineteca Italiana, was used as reference for color correction.
The restoration work was carried out in 2012 at the L’Immagine Ritrovata laboratory 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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