Caso Mattei, Il (1972)
Mattei Affair, The
Director: Francesco Rosi; Story and screenplay: Francesco Rosi and Tonino Guerra, in collaboration with Nerio Minuzzo and Tito De Stefano; Director of photography (Technicolor): Pasquale De Santis; Set decoration: Andrea Crisanti; Costumes by: Franco Caretti; Film editor: Ruggero Mastroianni; Music: Piero Piccioni; Production: Franco Cristaldi per Vides; Country: Italy; Running time: 118’
Cast: Gian Maria Volonté (Enrico Mattei), Luigi Squarzina (Liberal journalist), Gianfranco Ombuen (Mr. Ferrari, the engineer), Edda Forronao (Mrs. Mattei), Accursio De Leo (Sicilian personality), Giuseppe Lo Presti (Sicilian personality), Aldo Barberito (Official), Dario Micaelis (Official of Carabinieri Corps), Peter Baldwin (McHale), Franco Graziosi (Minister), Elio Jotta (Court of inquiry), Luciano Colitti (Bertuzzi), Terenzio Cordova (Police officer), Camillo Milli (Exchange broker), Jean Rougel (American official), Vittorio Famfoni (Journalist), Felice Fulchignoni (Sicilian personality), Furio Colombo (Assistant of Mattei), Blaise Morrisey (American oliman), Alessio Baume (Time reporter), Salvo Licata, Sennuccio Benelli, Ugo Zatterin, Gianni Farneti, Umberto D’Arrò, Giuseppe Rosselli (Journalists), Ferruccio Parri, Michele Panataleone, Arrigo Benedetti, Thyraud De Vosjoli, Francesco Rosi (Themeselves)
The film:
"I didn’t want to make the biography of a man, nor to analyze him psychologically. I wanted to tell his personality, his humanity, within a stated historical, political and economical contest. I absolutely don’t underestimate the psychological description, but from that character and his psychology I have taken what I needed: collective feelings, not individual ones."
[Francesco Rosi in Michel Cimet, Lorenzo Codelli (curated by), Dossier Rosi, Il Castoro / Museo Nazionale del Cinema, Torino 2008, p. 109]
The film restoration:
Il caso Mattei was restored by Fondazione Cineteca di Bologna with the collaboration of The Film Foundation of Martin Scorsese, Paramount Pictures and Museo Nazionale del Cinema di Torino. The restoration was supported by Gucci, Eni and The Film Foundation.
The digital restoration was based on the original negatives and the positive prints from the era, conserved at the CSC-Cineteca Nazionale, was used as reference for color correction.
The mold, which attacked the emulsion creating in some parts some visible yellow stains - very difficult to cancel also with the digital cleaning - was removed by the original elements. The first generation interpositive was used for these parts.
The film was scanned at a 4K resolution and the digitized images were processed with digital restoration tools to stabilize images and reduce flaws.
The restoration was carried out in 2012 at L’Immagine Ritrovata laboratory in Bologna.
The preservation work is part of a project to valorize the works by Francesco Rosi, including cataloging and making available his archival material, which was acquired by Museo Nazionale del Cinema between 2003 and 2008.
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