Proprietà non è più un furto, La (1973)
Property Is No Longer a Theft
Director: Elio Petri - Story: Elio Petri, Ugo Pitto - Screenplay: Elio Petri, Ugo Pirro - Director of photography: Luigi Kuveiller - Set decoration and Costumes by: Gianni Polidori - Music: Ennio Morricone - Film editing: Ruggero Mastroianni - Production: Claudio Mancini (Quasars Films Company) - Country: Italy - Running time: 126’
Cast: Flavio Bucci (Total), Ugo Tognazzi (Butcher), Daria Nicolodi (Anita), Orazio Orlando (Policeman), Mario Scaccia (Albertone), Salvo Randone (Total’s father), Cecilia Polizzi (Accomplice), Luigi Proietti (Paco l’Argentino), Julien Guiomar (Bank manager)
The film:
"When I watch the kids, I feel that their first expression is the will of appropriation, they say right away 'no' or 'it’s mine'; the refusal and the possession are the supports where they can place their identity.
I think that the sense of property is coming from territorial disputes; also animals have strong bonds with some objects. In a certain sense, money is God: it’s the Deus ex machina of our historical existence, this is the reason why it deserves to be kept in places (the banks), that look like churches."
[Elio Petri in Paola Pegoraro Petri (curated by), Lucidità inquieta. Il cinema di Elio Petri, Museo Nazionale del Cinema, Torino 2007, p. 123]
The film restoration:
This film has been digitally restored by Museo Nazionale del Cinema di Torino and Fondazione Cineteca di Bologna from the original negatives.
The camera negative was scanned at 4K and digitally restored at 2K.
The restoration works were carried out in 2013 at 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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