Based on leonardo sciascia’s novel A Man’s Blessing, this tense, surreal thriller was one of the earliest works to take the Italian Mafia as its subject. After two men are killed in a Sicilian town, a lonely professor with no family to protect (Volonté) takes it upon himself to investigate the crime. Through this obsessive quest, his life begins to resemble paranoid fantasy—a dark and ominous world that viewers are invited to share.
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The Films of Elio Petri
Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion / Sin in the Afternoon
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Marcello Mastroianni: I Remember
Directed by Anna Maria Tat, 1997
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Marcello Mastroianni: I Remember
Directed by Anna Maria Tat, 1997
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The Films of Elio Petri
Marcello Mastroianni: I Remember
Directed by Anna Maria Tat, 1997
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The Films of Elio Petri
Property Is No Longer a Theft
Directed by Elio Petri, 1973
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