Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion
Original title: Indagine su un cittadino al di sopra di ogni sospetto
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A chief of detectives, homicide section, kills his mistress and deliberately leaves clues to prove his own responsibility for the crime.A chief of detectives, homicide section, kills his mistress and deliberately leaves clues to prove his own responsibility for the crime.A chief of detectives, homicide section, kills his mistress and deliberately leaves clues to prove his own responsibility for the crime.
- Won 1 Oscar
- 17 wins & 6 nominations total
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- TriviaFirst part of the "Trilogy of Neurosis", also including The Working Class Goes to Heaven (1971) and Property Is No Longer a Theft (1973).
- Quotes
Il Dottore - Former head of homicide squad: The people are underage, the city is sick. Others are tasked with educating and curing this. Our duty is to repress it! The repression is our vaccine! Repression and civilization!
- Alternate versionsThe subtitled American version distributed by Columbia has slight differences in the credits. The Italian version opens with blank white-on-black credits (as many other Petri films do). The American version projects the credits onto the opening scene with the Dottore walking around the street. Both the opening and the closing credits (including the film's title and the Kafka quotation) are translated to English as well.
- ConnectionsEdited into Colpiti al cuore (2019)
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Masterpiece - Volonte's performance ranks with the immortals
I first saw this movie in December 1969 in New York. Apparently it did not open in LA before the year ended and, as a consequence, won best foreign film for 1970 (Z won for 1969). In the 1990's sometime IFC aired the film and I was lucky enough to tape it and then transfer it to DVD.
During the years following seeing the film, I would recommend the film to all my friends. What struck me when I had the chance to view it again was how well I had remembered the movie, every scene. Few, if any, movies ever made such a lasting impression from my first viewing and it still has that effect.
Besides the great script and direction, what made it complete was one of the finest performances by an actor I've ever seen. It is up there with the greatest work of such as Olivier, O'Toole, Depardieu and Mastroianni, to name a few whose work was staggering.
As to its unavailability, maybe someone should rattle IFC's cage asking them to air it again or maybe get TCM to air it.
During the years following seeing the film, I would recommend the film to all my friends. What struck me when I had the chance to view it again was how well I had remembered the movie, every scene. Few, if any, movies ever made such a lasting impression from my first viewing and it still has that effect.
Besides the great script and direction, what made it complete was one of the finest performances by an actor I've ever seen. It is up there with the greatest work of such as Olivier, O'Toole, Depardieu and Mastroianni, to name a few whose work was staggering.
As to its unavailability, maybe someone should rattle IFC's cage asking them to air it again or maybe get TCM to air it.
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- FritzGerlich
- Aug 6, 2011
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- Ermittlungen gegen einen über jeden Verdacht erhabenen Bürger
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- Gross US & Canada
- $265,470
- Runtime1 hour 55 minutes
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- 1.85 : 1
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