93,772 profiles ranked live

Elio Petri

✓ Source-basedrising

Italian filmmaker (1929-1982)

ItalyDirectorsLived 1929 to 1982 · aged 53
Compare
Fame59.7
Momentum25.0
Languages26
In century#9,684

Eraclio Petri, commonly known as Elio Petri, was an Italian film and theatre director, screenwriter and film critic. The Museum of Modern Art described him as "one of the preeminent political and social satirists of 1960s and early 1970s Italian cinema".

Also inDeutsch

Photos 1

Filmography 35

Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion1970 · ★ 8.2
The Working Class Goes to Heaven1971 · ★ 7.8
The 10th Victim1965 · ★ 6.6
The Monsters1963 · ★ 7.4
One Way or Another1976 · ★ 7.6
We Still Kill the Old Way1967 · ★ 6.6
Property Is No Longer a Theft1973 · ★ 7.2
The Assassin1961 · ★ 6.8
A Quiet Place in the Country1968 · ★ 6.2
His Days Are Numbered1962
The Teacher from Vigevano1963
Days of Love1954
Good News1979
High Infidelity1964
A Husband for Anna1953
The Employee1960
South Wind1959
Piece of the Sky1958
The Hunchback1960
Train without a Timetable1959
Angels of Darkness1954
The Year Long Road1958
Men and Wolves1957
Documents on Giuseppe Pinelli1970
Il carro armato dell'8 settembre1960
Ipotesi sulla morte di G. Pinelli1970
The Apartment1960
Nights of the Teddy Boys1959
Morceaux de Cannes2021
Sunset in Naples1956
Reflections on a Political Cinema1978
I sette contadini1958
Nudi per vivere1963
Il falso bugiardo2008
Nasce un campione1953

75 credits on file

Television 2

Midi trente1972
Dirty Hands1978

Awards 9

1972Palme d'Or
1970Grand Jury Prize of the Venice Film Festival
1970David di Donatello for Best Film
1970Cannes Film Festival Grand Prix
1970FIPRESCI Prize of the Festival de Cannes
1968Nastro d'Argento for the director of the best film
1967Best Screenplay Award
Nastro d'Argento for Best Subject
Nastro d'Argento for Best Screenplay

Connected to Elio 6

About this person

Eraclio Petri, commonly known as Elio Petri, was an Italian film and theatre director, screenwriter and film critic. The Museum of Modern Art described him as "one of the preeminent political and social satirists of 1960s and early 1970s Italian cinema". His film Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion won the 1971 Academy Award for Best Foreign-Language Film, and his subsequent film The Working Class Goes to Heaven received the Palme d'Or at the 1972 Cannes Film Festival.

Country
Italy
Category
Directors
Type
Movie Director
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1929 to 1982 · aged 53
Written about in
26 languages

Fame.am measures public visibility signals. It does not measure human value, talent, morality, or credibility.