A disaffected media executive spends his days watching violent programming on the television screens in his office and his evenings neglecting his frustrated wife at home. The monotonicity is disturbed when he is contacted by an old friend who confides in him he is being threatened by mysterious assassins.
Direction
Petri's claustrophobic framing traps you in office hell
Cinematography
Screens within screens, mirrors of alienation
Acting
Giannini's deadpan breakdown is excruciatingly perfect
Director
Elio Petri
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Petri made this after his Cannes-winning Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion, continuing his obsession with institutional rot in 1970s Italy.
Giancarlo Giannini based his physicality on watching actual Italian bureaucrats, that slumped shoulder walk is documented behavior.
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