TO EACH HIS OWN

Italian filmmaker and screenwriter Elio Petri, born in Rome, initially worked as a film critic, before turning to cinema. After a series of shorts and documentaries, he made his directorial debut with the film Assassin. He went on to become one of the leading figures of Italian political cinema in the early 70s, while his film Investigation of a citizen above suspicion won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. Petri died prematurely of cancer, at the age of 53.