We Still Kill the Old Way
To introduce the cycle, a lecture by a Mafia historian sets the tone. How does cinema relate to a certain Mafia mythology ? To what degree does it detach itself from it, or portray it in its most complex and troubled aspects ? The answer in fourteen films.
Near Palermo in Sicily, Arturo Manno, an unfaithful pharmacist, and his friend, Dr. Roscio, are shot dead during a hunting trip. The investigation soon concludes that the murders are linked to a settling of scores motivated by jealousy. However, Professor Paolo Laurana, a friend of the two men, doesn't believe this version of events, and he discovers that the Doctor was on the verge of exposing the Mafia connections of a local prominent figure.
Elio Petri
Eraclio Petri, commonly known as Elio Petri, was an Italian film director, screenwriter, theatre director, and critic associated with the political cinema in the 1960s and '70s. His film Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion won the 1971 Oscar for Best Foreign-Language Film, and his film The Working Class Goes to Heaven won the Palme d'Or at the 1972 Cannes Film Festival. The Museum of Modern Art described him as "one of the preeminent political and social satirists of Italian cinema."
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