Illustrious Corpses(Movie, 1976)

Name: Illustrious Corpses
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Released: 1976
Duration: T02:0:00
Rating: 3.5

Original title: "Cadaveri eccellenti" (Italian/IT)

2h | Genres: Crime, Mystery, Thriller

Rating: 3.5/5 (with 36 votes)

Illustrious Corpses (Italian: Cadaveri eccellenti, French: Cadavres exquis) is a 1976 Italian-French thriller film directed by Francesco Rosi and starring Lino Ventura, based on the novel Equal Danger by Leonardo Sciascia (1971). In 2008, the film was included in the Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage's 100 Italian films to be saved, a list of 100 films that "have changed the collective memory of the country between 1942 and 1978." ()

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Awards & Nominations for Illustrious Corpses

David di Donatello for Best Film

About Illustrious Corpses

A detective is assigned to investigate the mysterious murders of some Supreme Court judges.

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Trailer for Illustrious Corpses + Featurettes/Teaser/Clips

Illustrious Corpses (1976) Original Trailer [FHD](Trailer, 3:23)

Additional Information

Production countries: France, Italy

Shot in: Palermo

Plays in: Rome

Made by: Les Productions Artistes Associés, Produzioni Europee Associati (PEA)

Original language: Italian (IT)

Spoken languages: Italian (IT)

Translated into 14 languages: Bulgarian (BG), Czech (CS), German (DE), English (EN), Spanish (ES), Persian (FA), French (FR), Italian (IT), Japanese (JA), Korean (KO), Dutch (NL), Portuguese (PT), Russian (RU), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)

Status: Released

Release date DE: 02/12/1976

Cast: Lino Ventura, Renato Salvatori, Max von Sydow, Alain Cuny, Fernando Rey, Charles Vanel, Paolo Bonacelli, Tino Carraro, Marcel Bozzuffi, Maria Carta, Luigi Pistilli, Tina Aumont, Paolo Graziosi, Anna Proclemer, Alfonso Gatto, Carlo Tamberlani, Corrado Gaipa, Silverio Blasi, Florestano Vancini, Claudio Nicastro, Ernesto Colli, Alexandre Mnouchkine, Accursio Di Leo

Director: Francesco Rosi

Producer: Alberto Grimaldi

Screenwriter: Tonino Guerra, Lino Jannuzzi, Francesco Rosi

Film Editor: Ruggero Mastroianni

Director of Photography: Pasqualino De Santis

Composer: Piero Piccioni

Costume designer: Enrico Sabbatini

Production Designer: Andrea Crisanti

Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):

"Die Macht und ihr Preis"

"Cadavres exquis"

"고귀한 희생"

"The Context"

Keywords: suspense

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