Elio Petri

About Elio Petri

Who is it?: Writer, Director, Assistant Director
Birth Day: January 29, 1929
Birth Place:  Rome, Lazio, Italy, Italy
Died On: 10 November 1982(1982-11-10) (aged 53)\nRome, Italy
Birth Sign: Aquarius
Occupation: Film director
Years active: 1953–1982

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Elio Petri was born on January 29, 1929 in  Rome, Lazio, Italy, Italy, is Writer, Director, Assistant Director. Elio Petri was born on January 29, 1929 in Rome, Lazio, Italy as Eraclio Petri. He was a writer and director, known for Indagine su un cittadino al di sopra di ogni sospetto (1970), A ciascuno il suo (1967) and La classe operaia va in paradiso (1971). He was married to Paola Pegoraro. He died on November 10, 1982 in Rome.
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1929

Elio Petri was born in Rome on 29 January 1929. He was expelled for political reasons from San Giuseppe di Merode, a school run by a priest on the Piazza di Spagna, and joined the youth organization of the Italian Communist Party. He wrote for L'Unità and for Gioventù nuova as well as for Città aperta. He left the party in 1956 after the Hungarian uprising.

1952

Gianni Puccini introduced him to Giuseppe De Santis, who made him assistant to the Director of Bitter Rice. He collaborated, without being credited, on Rome 11 O'Clock (1952), one of the least known post-war neo-realist movies. Petri published in book about the inquiry into the actual event depicted in 1956.

1953

He was script-writer and director's assistant on La Fille sans homme (1953), Jour d'amour (1955), Homme et luops (1956), La strada lungo un anno (1958) and La Garconniere (1960). During the period, Petri also wrote scripts for Giuliano Puccini, Aglauco Casadio and Carlo Lizzani.

1954

After two shorts, Nasce un campione (1954) and I sette contadini (1959), Petri made his debut as a Director with L'assassino (The lady killer of Rome), based on a script co-authored with Tonino Guerra in 1961.

1962

I giorni contati (1962), was his second film, again co-authored with Tonino Guerra. After two somewhat lesser films Il Maestro di Vigevano, (1963) and the Sketch Sin in the afternoon, included in High Infidelity, 1964, Petri directed The 10th Victim (1965), a film with Futuristic overtones also co-authored with Tonino Guerra. In 1967, he shot We Still Kill the Old Way (adapted from the novel To Each His Own by Leonardo Sciascia), dealing with the individual's inability to cope with reality. The film also the beginning of the collaboration with the script-writer Ugo Pirro which was to last until 1973.

1970

A Quiet Place in the Country, the last of his film to be co-authored with Guerra, focuses on solitude and the artist's romantic agony. The film won a Silver Bear award at the 19th Berlin International Film Festival. He then directed four films which earned him recognition for his analysis of schizophrenia. Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion (1970) was about the police-force. The Working Class Goes to Heaven (1971) focused on the worker's condition. Property Is No Longer a Theft (1973) emphasized the role of money in our society and how power destroys the individual. Todo modo (1976) was adapted from the eponymous novel by Leonardo Sciascia is about the warped psychic structure of the power moguls among the Christian Democrats. Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.

1978

In 1978, Petri directed for the television a remarkable version of Sartre's play Dirty Hands, starring Marcello Mastroianni. Due to copyright issues, the film has not been released outside Italy.

1979

Good News (1979), was produced by Petri and Giancarlo Giannini.

1982

In 1981, Petri went to Geneva to direct Arthur Miller's new play The American Clock. Work on another film, Chi illumina la grande notte, was well advanced: the takes were scheduled for September 1982, and Marcello Mastroianni was to play the leading role. Petri died of cancer on 10 November 1982. He was 53 years old.