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Special Features: 4K Restoration | Intro by Cecilia Cenciarelli, Co-Director, Il Cinema Ritrovato and Head of Special Projects, Cineteca di Bologna
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After a right-wing newspaper's offices are attacked by demonstrating anarchists on the eve of an election, its vengeful publisher (Gian Maria Volonté, A FISTFUL OF DOLLARS) orchestrates a smear campaign against the movement's student leader, eventually framing him for the murder of a fellow student. Marco Bellocchio's (FISTS IN THE POCKET) scathing indictment of the political power plays and secret scheming among government factions, big business and the media has been confirmed by any number of real-life incidents the world over in the years since, remaining as prescient and powerful as it was on release. DIR Marco Bellocchio; SCR Sergio Donati, Goffredo Fofi; PROD Ugo Tucci. Italy/France, 1972, color, 87 min. In Italian with English subtitles. NOT RATED
Restored in 4K by the Cineteca di Bologna, in collaboration with Surf Film, Kavac Film and Minerva Pictures, under the supervision of Marco Bellocchio; the original film and sound negatives were digitized by Augustus Color and restored at the L’Immagine Ritrovata laboratory.
Run Time: 87 Minutes
Opening Date: Friday, March 07, 2025
Genre: Thriller, drama
