Todo modo (1976)
Director: Elio Petri - Screenplay: Elio Petri in collaborazione con Roberto Pelosso - Director of photography: Luigi Kuveiller - Set decoration: Dante Ferretti - Film editor: Ruggero Mastroianni - Music: Ennio Morricone - Production: Daniele Senatore per Cinevera - Country: Italy - Running time: 130’
Cast: Gian Maria Volonté (M.), Marcello Mastroianni (Don Gaetano), Mariangela Melato (Giacinta), Michel Piccoli (Himself), Ciccio Ingrassia (Voltrano), Franco Citti (chaffeur of M.), Renato Salvatori (Police commissioner Scalambri), Cesare Gelli (deputy prefect Arras), Tino Scotti (Chef), Adriano Amidei Migliano (Capra-Porfiri), Giancarlo Badessi (Ventre)
The film:
"After two days of filming Todo modo, everyone found that Gian Maria was changing into Aldo Moro in a disquieting way. Elio invited him to present his character again in a different way in order to avoid some censorship problems. We shot again the first two days. We didn’t have any troubles with the censorship nor with the judiciary, but after a month the distributor withdrew the movie from the theatres. Since then it was no longer released. A year after, Aldo Moro and his escort were assassinated."
[Paola Pegoraro Petri, in Id. (a cura di), Lucidità inquieta. Il cinema di Elio Petri, Museo Nazionale del Cinema, Torino 2007, p. 11]
The film restoration:
Todo Modo was restored from the original camera and sound negative and the preservation elements preserved by Surf Film copyright holder.
Ennio Guarnieri, who worked on other films with Elio Petri and director of photography Luigi Kuveiller, has supervised the color correction process.
The restoration has been carried out by Fondazione Cineteca di Bologna and Museo Nazionale del Cinema di Torino in collaboration with Surf Film and Warner Bros. in 2014 at 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.
The Mustang Entertainment published a DVD of the restored film.
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