The Museum is open 11:00 – 19:00
Cinema is closed now
The Museum is open 11:00 – 19:00
Cinema is closed now
Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion
Before the film, we invite you to an introduction by Michał Oleszczyk, and after the screening there will be a discussion.
Raskolnikov killed to test the limits of his own morality – the antihero of Investigation into the Case of... kills to prove that the law is powerless against social prestige.
The unforgettable Gian Maria Volonté plays a police inspector in love with his own impunity. After a perverse sexual murder, he provides the authorities with all the necessary circumstantial evidence... because no one will suspect a person as respected as he is.
This visually vibrant (especially in the symphony of nervous zooming that cinematographer Luigi Kuveiller treats our eyes to) and wild political satire on the absolute insolence of power resonates more and more loudly with each passing year.
The film not only won an Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film, but also caused a considerable political scandal by prophetically weaving the motif of a bomb attack into the plot (the infamous explosion in Milan's Piazza Fontana in December 1969, which initiated the so-called decade of lead in Italian society, took place after filming had ended but before the premiere).
The unforgettable Gian Maria Volonté plays a police inspector in love with his own impunity. After a perverse sexual murder, he provides the authorities with all the necessary circumstantial evidence... because no one will suspect a person as respected as he is.
This visually vibrant (especially in the symphony of nervous zooming that cinematographer Luigi Kuveiller treats our eyes to) and wild political satire on the absolute insolence of power resonates more and more loudly with each passing year.
The film not only won an Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film, but also caused a considerable political scandal by prophetically weaving the motif of a bomb attack into the plot (the infamous explosion in Milan's Piazza Fontana in December 1969, which initiated the so-called decade of lead in Italian society, took place after filming had ended but before the premiere).
The somewhat forgotten Elio Petri was one of the hottest names in world cinema at the turn of the 1960s and 1970s. During this time, he made a total of five films with the charismatic Volonté; while Investigation... won an Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film, the next one, The Working Class Goes to Heaven (1972), won the Palme d'Or at Cannes. Together with the later black comedy Property Is No Longer a Theft (1973), these films form Petri's Marxist "trilogy of neurosis," depicting the fragmentation of individual consciousness entangled in the deadly contradictions of corporate capitalism.