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The Mattei Affair(Movie, 1972)

Original title: "Il caso Mattei" (Italian/IT)
1h 56min | Genres: Crime, Drama, History, Thriller
The Mattei AffairRating: 3.8/5 (with 3939 votes)
The Mattei Affair (Italian: Il Caso Mattei) is a 1972 Italian drama film directed by Francesco Rosi. It depicts the life and mysterious death of Enrico Mattei, an Italian businessman who in the aftermath of World War II managed to avoid the sale of the nascent Italian oil and hydrocarbon industry to US companies and developed them in the Eni, a state-owned oil company which rivaled the "Seven Sisters" for oil and gas deals in Northern African and Middle Eastern countries. The film shared the Grand Prix with The Working Class Goes to Heaven at the 1972 Cannes Film Festival. Italian star Gian Maria Volonté was the leading actor in both films. The film is an innovative hybrid of documentary and fiction, representing Francesco Rosi's concept of cine-inchieste (film investigation). The flashback structure shows the influence of Citizen Kane and Rosi's Salvatore Giuliano (1962). Rosi remains faithful to his neo-realist roots with on-location shooting and non-professional actors. The main plot is interwoven... ()
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About The Mattei Affair

Enrico Mattei helped change Italy’s future, first as freedom-fighter against the Nazis, then as an investor in methane gas through a public company, A.G.I.P., and ultimately as the head of ENI, a state body formed for the development of oil resources. On October 27, 1962, he died when his private airplane crashed during a flight to Milan. Officially, it is declared an accident, but many journalists explore other plausible reasons for Mattei's untimely death.

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Additional Information

Production country: Italy
Original language: Italian (IT)
Spoken languages: Italian (IT)
Translated into 8 languages: English (EN), Spanish (ES), French (FR), Italian (IT), Portuguese (PT), Russian (RU), Swedish (SV), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)
Status: Released
Release date DE: 01/26/1972
Director: Francesco Rosi
Film Editor: Ruggero Mastroianni
Director of Photography: Pasqualino De Santis
Composer: Piero Piccioni
Production Designer: Andrea Crisanti
Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):
"El caso Mattei"
"L'Affaire Mattei"
"A Mattei-ügy"
"黒い砂漠"
"O Caso Mattei"
"Fallet Mattei"
"El caso Mattei"
"Prípad Mattei"

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