Chronicle of a Homicide (1972)
"Imputazione di omicidio per uno studente" (original title)

Director:

Mauro Bolognini

Writers:

Ugo Liberatore (screenplay), Ugo Pirro (screenplay),

Stars:

Massimo Ranieri, Martin Balsam, Valentina Cortese

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Massimo Ranieri	...	Fabio Sola
Martin Balsam	...	Giudice Aldo Sola
Valentina Cortese	...	Luisa Sola
Turi Ferro	...	Commissario Malacarne
Pino Colizzi	...	Commisario Alberto Cottone (as Giuseppe Colizzi)
Salvo Randone	...	Procuratore Generale
Luigi Diberti	...	Massimo Trotti
Petra Pauly	...	Carla Stale
Mariano Rigillo	...	Luca Binda
Carlo Valli	...	Alfio Ricci
Sergio Enria
Gino Milli
Piero Gerlini
Luigi Bonos
Aldo Ricci

Storyline

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Genres:

Drama

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Details

Country:

Italy

Language:

Italian

Release Date:

8 February 1974 (East Germany)

Also Known As:

Chronicle of a Homicide

Company Credits

Production Co:

Documento Film

Technical Specs

Runtime:

100 min

Sound Mix:

Mono

Color:

Color (Eastmancolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

User Reviews

Not a good Bolognini

The best of this movie is Ennio Morricone's soundtrack ,as gorgeous as ever.

It is an impersonal movie,which bears the appropriate scars of the time .There were so many cops/students rebellions/riots movies at the time Bolognini was incapable of renewing a genre which was so trendy many directors felt compelled to make their own 'bourgeois vs bourgeois" work.Martin Basalm ,who is remembered as the private detective who investigates Norman Bates ' house in "Psycho" had already worked in Italian political movies (La Colonna Infame (1972) Confessione Di Un Commissario Di Polizia Al Procuratore Della Repubblica (1971) .... );he portrays a judge whose son killed a cop during a riot.There's nothing extraordinary in the screenplay and the ending is really the easy way out.

Mauro Bolognini is better at so many other things it's strange he made such a demagogic work with such stereotyped characters .His forte was always the intimate costume drama .