A ciascuno il suo (1967)

Director:

Elio Petri

Writers:

Jean Curtelin (dialogue)
Jean Curtelin (screenplay)

Release Date:

28 February 1968 (USA)

Genre:

Crime | Drama

Tagline:

Sicily is a small island. Some people live there. Some people love there. Some people die there.

Plot:

A leftist professor wants the truth about two men killed during a hunting party; but the mafia, the Church and corrupt politicians don't want him to learn it.

Plot Keywords:

Mafia | Widow | Murder | Investigation | Vatican

Awards:

5 wins & 1 nomination

Cast

Gian Maria Volonté	...	Prof. Paolo Laurana
Irene Papas	...	Luisa Roscio
Gabriele Ferzetti	...	Avvocato Rosello
Salvo Randone	...	Prof. Roscio
Luigi Pistilli	...	Arturo Manno
Laura Nucci	...	Roscio's mother
Mario Scaccia	...	Curato di Sant'Amo
Luciana Scalise	...	Rosina
Leopoldo Trieste	...	Il deputato comunista
Giovanni Pallavicino	...	Ragana
Franco Tranchina	...	Dr. Antonio Roscio
Ana Rivero	...	Arturo's wife
Orio Cannarozzo	...	Ispettore di polizia La Marca
Carmelo Oliviero	...	Arciprete Rosello
Carlo Ferro

Also Known As:

We Still Kill the Old Way (USA)

Runtime:

99 min

Country:

Italy

Language:

Italian

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

West Germany:12 (f) (re-rated) | West Germany:16 (f) (original rating) | Argentina:16 | Finland:K-16 | Norway:16 (1968) | Sweden:15

Filming Locations:

Cefalù, Palermo, Sicily, Italy

Company:

Cemo Film

The more you know, the more you are in danger.

Paolo Laurana is a kind of leftist intellectual who chances to be intrigued by a mysterious double murder in the Sicily of mid Sixties. In his personal detection for murder's instigators, he will run into a plot in which both politicians and mafia racketeers are involved. So curiosity will become a very dangerous affair. Taken from a novel by Leonardo Sciascia (1921-1989), A ciascuno il suo (1967) is a film where high rank acting is at its top. Cast (Gianmaria Volonté, Irene Papas, Gabriele Ferzetti, Salvo Randone, Luigi Pistilli. Mario Scaccia, Leopoldo Trieste) is perfect and well-combined, direction (Elio Petri, 1929-1982) is powerful and impressive. If compared to the novel, Elio Petri's film (written with Ugo Pirro) may seem short of that illuministic pessimism that breathes through Sciascia's books, but Laurana's rationalistic search for truth retains that `bitter taste of intelligence' which is one of the major feature of Sciascia's characters. A key film to understand historical condition of Italy in the Sixties.