L’assassino

Among the great wave of film debuts in the late 1950s and early 1960s, that of Rome-born director Elio Petri is often overshadowed by those of his contemporaries both in Italy and abroad. Even in terms of Petri...

Todo modo

Beginning with the socially-committed films of neo-realism, postwar Italian cinema became, perhaps even more than Italian postwar literature, a form that inherently tended to reflect and refract its own social ...

I giorni contati

Although Elio Petri’s second film, I giorni contati (1962), has all the characteristics of the director’s debut feature, L’assassino (1961), it was written (with Tonino Guerra) before it. It is a personal story...