Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion - The Criterion Collection

The provocative Italian filmmaker ELIO PETRI's most internationally acclaimed work is this remarkable, visceral, Oscar-winning thriller. Petri maintains a tricky balance between absurdity and realism in telling the Kafkaesque tale of a Roman police inspector (A Fistful of Dollars' GIAN MARIA VOLONTÉ, in a commanding performance) investigating a heinous crime-which he committed himself. Both a penetrating character study and a disturbing commentary on the draconian crackdowns by the Italian government in the late 1960s and early '70s, Petri's kinetic portrait of surreal bureaucracy is a perversely pleasurable rendering of controlled chaos.SPECIAL EDITION FEATURESNew 4K digital restoration by the Film Foundation, with uncompressed monaural soundtrackArchival interview with director Elio Petri, conducted by critic and filmmaker Alexandre AstrucElio Petri: Notes About a Filmmaker (2005), a ninety minute documentary on the director's career, featuring interviews with friends, collaborators, and filmmakersInterview with film scholar Camilla Zamboni from 2013Investigation of a Citizen Named Volonté (2008), a sixty-minute documentary about actor Gian Maria VolontéMusic in His Blood, an interview with composer Ennio Morricone from 2010, conducted by film critic Fabio FerzettiTrailersNew English subtitle translationPLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by film scholar Evan Calder Williams and excerpts from a 2001 book by author and screenwriter Ugo Pirro