Elio Petri

Elio Petri was born in Rome on 29 January 1929. He wrote about cinema in L'Unità and in magazines, then was an assistant and co-screenwriter to Giuseppe De Santis during the 1950s. He moved into directing in 1961. He worked several times with the actor Gian Maria Volonté from 1967, received the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film in 1971 and the Palme d'Or at Cannes in 1972. He died in Rome on 10 November 1982.

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• CinemaTodo modoElio Petri · 1976Cinema