The Tenth Victim
(La decima vittima)
Screening on Film
Directed by Elio Petri.
With Marcello Mastroianni, Ursula Andress, Elsa Martinelli.
Italy, 1965, 16mm, color, 92 min.
English language version.
With Marcello Mastroianni, Ursula Andress, Elsa Martinelli.
Italy, 1965, 16mm, color, 92 min.
English language version.
A flamboyant, futuristic fantasy in the 1960s Pop-art, sci-fi vein of Barbarella and Modesty Blaise, Petri’s late-night cult classic is set in a 21st century where war and aggression have been replaced by a game of legalized murder called "Man Hunt." Mastroianni and sex goddess Ursula Andress star as computer-chosen contestants of this deadly televised spectacle. She is out to make him her tenth victim in the contest, but romance inevitably intervenes. Legendary in part for Andress’s lethal double-barreled brassiere, this lurid satire lampoons media and advertising, faddish 1960s religions and health trends, the obsession with fame and money, and much else.