FILM DIRECTOR

Elio Petri

1929 - 1982

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Eraclio Petri (29 January 1929 – 10 November 1982), 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. Other noted films by Petri include The 10th Victim (1965), the prize-winning We Still Kill the Old Way (1967) and A Quiet Place in the Country (1968), and the controversially received Todo modo (1976). Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Elio Petri is the 503rd most popular film director (down from 484th in 2019), the 2,449th most popular biography from Italy (down from 2,360th in 2019) and the 39th most popular Italian Film Director.

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Elio Petri ranks 503 out of 2,041. Before him are Yves Allégret, Mauro Bolognini, Richard Lester, Takashi Miike, Hiroshi Teshigahara, and Nick Castle. After him are Hiroshi Inagaki, J. J. Abrams, Vicente Aranda, Clarence Brown, Richard Thorpe, and Renny Harlin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1929, Elio Petri ranks 192. Before him are Mariama Bâ, Sixten Jernberg, Elizabeth Roemer, Anne Meara, Prince Andrew of Yugoslavia, and Leila Abashidze. After him are Jürgen Ehlers, Charles Tilly, Rafael Eitan, Amitai Etzioni, Gastone Moschin, and Claude Goretta. Among people deceased in 1982, Elio Petri ranks 106. Before him are David Frankfurter, Karl Hein, Sultan al-Atrash, Pavel Rotmistrov, Tadj ol-Molouk, and Anatoly Solonitsyn. After him are Jakov Gotovac, Patrick Magee, Eduard Tubin, Bauyrzhan Momyshuly, Hironori Ōtsuka, and Abba P. Lerner.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Elio Petri ranks 2,449 out of 5,161. Before him are Alvise Giovanni Mocenigo (1701), Benedetto Castelli (1578), Valerian Wellesley, 8th Duke of Wellington (1915), Sergio Marchionne (1952), Fernando d'Ávalos (1489), and Cığalazade Yusuf Sinan Pasha (1545). After him are Paolo Bonacelli (1937), Giovanni Battista Vitali (1632), Giovanni de' Bardi (1534), Roger of Salerno (1100), Moshe Chaim Luzzatto (1707), and Russell Bufalino (1903).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In Italy

Among film directors born in Italy, Elio Petri ranks 39. Before him are Giuseppe De Santis (1917), Valerio Zurlini (1926), Alberto Lattuada (1914), Alessandro Blasetti (1900), Umberto Lenzi (1931), and Mauro Bolognini (1922). After him are Sergio Sollima (1921), Carlo Lizzani (1922), George P. Cosmatos (1941), Renato Castellani (1913), Tonino Delli Colli (1923), and Giovanni Pastrone (1883).

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