72nd San Sebastian Festival - 20/28 September 2024
72SSIFF - 20/28 September 2024
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Violent Italy
Violent Italy
Ossessione © 1943 I.C.I. © 2004 MARZI Srl. All rights reserved. Courtesy VIGGO Srl.
© Ossessione © 1943 I.C.I. © 2004 MARZI Srl. All rights reserved. Courtesy VIGGO Srl.
Luchino Visconti
Italy
142 min.
Giovanna is a young woman married to an older restaurant owner. Her sordid life changes with the appearance of a tramp who becomes her lover and urges her to kill her husband. Neorrealist adaptation of James M. Cain's novel The Postman Always Rings Twice.
CRISTALDIFILM
© CRISTALDIFILM
Mario Soldati
Italy
106 min.
At the end of World War II, a fascist criminal with an arrest warrant on his head tries to make an undercover escape to France with his son. When the train they are travelling on makes a stop and they are about to have dinner in a restaurant, he is recognised by the waitress.
CRISTALDIFILM
© CRISTALDIFILM
Pietro Germi
Italy
101 min.
A young judge is sent to the small Sicilian town of Capodarso. His mission will be to apply the law in a community accustomed to operating according to the Mafia rules and to living in a permanent state of insecurity. He soon realises that he's on his own and that the locals are not about to collaborate. Based on a magistrate's autobiographical novel.
Courtesy of BROADMEDIA
© Courtesy of BROADMEDIA
Fernando Cerchio
Italy
110 min.
Tale of a decorated war hero turned gangster. Deciding to become a policeman to better help his partners in crime, he falls in love with a young woman and starts thinking about leaving his former accomplices. A rare animal of the crime genre still illuminated by the light of the neorrealist style.
1950 Cines SpA; © 2010 Cristina D’Osualdo. Tutti i diritti riservati. Courtesy VIGGO Srl.
© 1950 Cines SpA; © 2010 Cristina D’Osualdo. Tutti i diritti riservati. Courtesy VIGGO Srl.
Pietro Germi
Italy
81 min.
As a football match is being played, four criminals rob the stadium ticket office. Before they can make their getaway, they are discovered and a chase ensues, prompting them to split up before they can divide the money. Award for Best Italian Film at the Venice Mostra.
1952 Gaumont
© 1952 Gaumont
Luigi Zampa
Italy
108 min.
The judge tasked with solving the murder of a respectable citizen from Naples discovers that the victim belonged to an extensive criminal network. The judge wavers between his duty, his principles and the strong pressure meted out by the political authorities and the upper-crust. Based on true cases of the struggle against Neapolitan organised crime.
MERCURY FILMS. Todos los derechos reservados.
© MERCURY FILMS. Todos los derechos reservados.
Pietro Germi
Italy
114 min.
A robbery and a murder take place in two apartments of a same building. The inspector in charge of the case (played by the director himself, Pietro Germi) will gradually unveil the miserable situation of all those involved in the affair to a greater or lesser extent. One of Germi's most representative films.
Studiocanal/Tamasa Distribution
© Studiocanal/Tamasa Distribution
Alberto Lattuada
Italy
103 min.
An honest man who lives and works in Milan returns to his native Sicily for a holiday, a situation taken advantage of by the director of his company to send a package to the local Mafia boss. From here on in, the character played by Alberto Sordi finds himself caught up in the organised crime business. Golden Shell at the San Sebastian Festival in 1963.
Images courtesy of Park Circus/Paramount
© Images courtesy of Park Circus/Paramount
Carlo Lizzani
Italy
99 min.
Cavallero is a man of seemingly respectable appearance, catholic and conservative. However, he and three friends are in fact a band of thieves who rob banks in several Italian cities. A study of the Milanese criminal underworld based on the heists and murders committed by the Cavallero gang in the second half of the 60s.
Courtesy of MOVIETIME
© Courtesy of MOVIETIME
Damiano Damiani
Italy - France
109 min.
The Sicilian Mafia, who control the construction business, have powerful mechanisms to enforce and remain in power. The storyline opens with the murder of a syndicalist and the disappearance of a man. As the police investigate the wife of the missing man and suspicions start to hone in on a major Mafia kingpin, they find their work being systematically hampered from the highest echelons.
Investigation Of A Citizen Above Suspicion © 1970, 1996, 1998 Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
© Investigation Of A Citizen Above Suspicion © 1970, 1996, 1998 Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Elio Petri
France - Italy
115 min.
The head of the homicide squad, played by the iconic Gian Maria Volonté, murders his mistress and plants clues against himself, not fond of seeing people beat the system and the culprits going free. Dissection of the political authorities and the police force that earned its director, Elio Petri, great acclaim.
Fernando Di Leo
Italy
102 min.
The Americano's gang tries to recoup 300,000 dollars that have mysteriously vanished. Everyone suspects Ugo Piazza, sentenced to several years in jail. On his release, the Americano's right-hand man is waiting to find out where the money is. The best Italian thriller of all times in the effusive words of Quentin Tarantino.
Steno (Stefano Vanzina)
Italy - France
98 min.
An organised group kills notorious criminals who have never been tried and inspector Bertone is given the task of catching this clique of avengers. A clever analysis of the conventions and limits of the legal system made parallel to a number of movies of a similar nature shot in Hollywood. Silver Shell for Best Director at San Sebastian in 1972.
Sergio Sollima
Italy - Germany
109 min.
Kidnappers have snatched the wife of a prison warden, played by the homeric Oliver Reed. She'll be killed if they don't release the prisoner embodied by Fabio Testi. Eventually the warden and the prisoner are thrown into an unlikely conspiracy when the latter realises that his former gang plans to get rid of him. Poliziesco with the music of Ennio Morricone, programmed in collaboration with the Sitges Festival.
History and Art Collection / Alamy Stock Photo
© History and Art Collection / Alamy Stock Photo
Umberto Lenzi
Italy
99 min.
Considered to be the most violent of the Italian crime movies, the protagonist is a sick and sadistic criminal who will kill anyone who stands in the way of his goals. Key movie in Tomas Milian's career in the genre. Henry Silva, usually the murderer in these films, plays the police inspector. The English title is emphatic in its reference to the lead character: Almost Human.
Illustrious Corpses © 1976 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. All Rights Reserved.
© Illustrious Corpses © 1976 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Francesco Rosi
Italy - France
120 min.
In a region of Southern Italy, a murderer kills several judges. The inspector brought in to solve the case finds himself following the steps of a pharmacist sentenced for poisoning. An example of Francesco Rosi's thrillers based on a novel by Leonard Sciasci and featuring one of the stars of the French polar, Lino Ventura.
Umberto Lenzi
Italy
94 min.
A Roman police commissioner witnesses how arrested criminals avoid jail by invoking an assortment of legal dodges. The only solution for him is to become an angel of death. The film unites four of the heavyweights in the genre (the actors Tomas Milian and Maurizio Merli, the director Umberto Lenzi and the screenwriter Dardano Sacchetti) while entertaining a themed dialogue with another title in the season: La polizia ringrazia.
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© MERCURY FILMS. Todos los derechos reservados.
Pasquale Squitieri
Italy
117 min.
In 1925, Mussolini sent Cesare Mori to Sicily to occupy the position of Prefect. His mission was to fight the Mafia. The fascist regime was worried about its power and influence, and the next four years went down in history as the time of the Iron Prefect, who arrested and sentenced more than two thousand mobsters. Based on a true case of the struggle against the Sicilian Mafia.
Giuseppe Ferrara
Italy
113 min.
Reconstruction of the kidnap and murder of Aldo Moro, leader of the Christian Democratic Party, by the Red Brigades in 1978, with Gian Maria Volonté in the part of the polititian who advocated the making of ties with the Communist faction headed by Enrico Berlinguer.
Stefano D’Amadio
© Stefano D’Amadio
Marco Bellocchio
Italy
107 min.
Chiara is a passionate, Utopian and revolutionary youngster who hides her true identity as a member of the Italian Red Brigades in the late 70s. At first sight she is a normal girl who moves into a new flat with her boyfriend. However, her friend Enzo starts to suspect that not all is what it seems. One of Marco Bellocchio's outstanding takes on Italy's political and criminal fabric.
KARMA FILMS
© KARMA FILMS
Matteo Garrone
Italy
125 min.
The residents of the Naples and Caserta provinces must obey the Mafia rules. Five stories interweave in this violent scenario, set in a cruel and only apparently imaginary world. Based on the novel of the same name by Roberto Saviano, this razor-sharp tale of the Neapolitan Camorra won the Grand Jury Prize at the Festival de Cannes in 2008. New 4k remastered director’s cut.
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