Having tackled the corrupting nature of power with Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion and taken an angry, impassioned look at labour relations with The Working Class Goes to Heaven, Italian master Elio Petri next turned his attentions to capitalism for the darkly comic Property is No Longer a Theft. A young bank clerk (Flavio Bucci, the blind pianist in Dario Argento's Suspiria), denied a loan by his employer, decides to exact his revenge the local butcher (Ugo Tognazzi, La Grande bouffe) who is not only a nasty, violent, greedy piece of work but also one... of the bank's star customers. Quitting his job, the clerk devotes all of his time tormenting the butcher, stealing his possessions one-by-one, including his mistress (Daria Nicolodi, Deep Red). Told in an off-kilter fashion by Petri, abetted by the woozy sound design and another outstanding score by Ennio Morricone, Property is No Longer a Theft presents a caustic, blackly comic look at a corrupt society. [show more]
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Italian comedy drama co-written and directed by Elio Petri. After becoming disillusioned with his job, young bank clerk Total (Flavio Bucci) decides to get revenge on his wealthy clients. Targeting the greedy local butcher (Ugo Tognazzi), Total begins tormenting him by stealing his possessions before finally going after his wife Anita (Daria Nicolodi). The cast also includes Mario Scaccia and Julien Guiomar.
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