Elio Petri
Highest Rated: 100% A Quiet Place in the Country (1970)
Lowest Rated: 80% The Tenth Victim (1965)
Birthday: Jan 29, 1929
Birthplace: Rome, Italy
Former critic who turned out a handful of documentaries and contributed to the scripts of several films (notably by Guiseppe De Santis) before directing his first feature in 1961. Petri used stylish visuals and a knack for finely-paced storytelling to communicate his pointed social and political satire. His best films include "The Tenth Victim" (1965), a futuristic fantasy in which men and women are trained to kill each other for sport; "Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion" (1970), an Oscar-winning parable about a Fascist police chief; and "Lulu the Tool" (1972), a complex and absorbing account of a factory worker's political awakening.
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Filmography
Movies
| Credit | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Good News |
Director, Screenwriter, Writer, Producer |
- | 1979 |
| No Score Yet | 95% | Todo Modo |
Director, Screenwriter |
- | 1976 |
| No Score Yet | 70% | Property Is No Longer a Theft |
Director, Writer |
- | 1973 |
| No Score Yet | 92% | The Working Class Goes to Heaven |
Director, Screenwriter |
- | 1971 |
| 100% | 54% | A Quiet Place in the Country |
Director, Writer |
- | 1970 |
| 100% | 94% | Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion | Director | $89.9K | 1970 |
| No Score Yet | 61% | We Still Kill the Old Way |
Director, Writer |
- | 1967 |
| 80% | 78% | The Tenth Victim |
Director, Writer |
- | 1965 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | High Infidelity | Director | - | 1964 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Teacher From Vigevano | Director | - | 1963 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Numbered Days |
Director, Screenwriter |
- | 1962 |
| No Score Yet | 87% | The Assassin | Director | - | 1961 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Year Long Road | Screenwriter | - | 1958 |