Property Is No Longer a Theft (1973)
"La proprietà non è più un furto" (original title)

Director:

Elio Petri

Writers:

Elio Petri, Ugo Pirro

Stars:

Flavio Bucci, Ettore Garofolo, Luigi Antonio Guerra

1 win & 1 nomination.

Cast

Credited cast:
Flavio Bucci	...	Total
Ettore Garofolo	...	Bocio
Luigi Antonio Guerra	...	Protester
Julien Guiomar	...	Bank director
Jacques Herlin	...	Bank employee
Gino Milli	...	Zaganè
Daria Nicolodi	...	Anita
Orazio Orlando	...	Pirelli
Cecilia Polizzi	...	Mafalda
Ada Pometti	...	Maid
Gigi Proietti	...	Paco
Salvo Randone	...	Total's father
Mario Scaccia	...	Albertone
Ugo Tognazzi	...	The Butcher

Storyline

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Plot Keywords:

murder | thief | politics | wealth | nudity | 

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Genres:

Comedy | Drama

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Details

Country:

Italy France

Language:

Italian

Release Date:

3 October 1973 (Italy)

Also Known As:

Property Is No Longer a Theft

Company Credits

Production Co:

Labrador Films, Quasars Film Company, Société Nouvelle Cinévog

Technical Specs

Runtime:

120 min

Sound Mix:

Mono

Color:

Color (Eastmancolor)

Did You Know?

Trivia

Last part of the "Trilogy of Neurosis" also including Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion and Lulu the Tool.

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Connections

Follows Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion (1970)

User Reviews

progressive Italian surrealism

If you want to know what marxism-madrakism is, don't miss this movie! A great example of smart and politicized Italian cinema of the seventies, a real cult in my opinion. The main character is a sort of modern times psychopathic robin-hood whom works as a clerk in a bank, but is allergic to money! At a certain point he is so exasperated that he decides that he must mine rich people's private property in order to give a shock to their lives. His main target is a rich butcher (Ugo Tognazzi), but he decides not to steal his money, but things that he needs more: his butcher knife, tool of his trade, his hat, his woman... In the meantime, he enters the dark world of delinquency meeting a professional thief which he manages to blackmail so that he can help him in his misdoings. Between the world of marxist idealism and pure delinquency, the whole story is fantastic and unreal, with references to Fromm's "Life between having and being". The character would like to "have" (money and things) but in the same moment he also wants to "be" (save his personality), but he undesrtands that it's impossible ("This is the problem!", he repeats) . The final is also fantastic, with the thief's funeral in which a great Gigi Proietti gives us a monologue on the importance of thiefs in society. A must for lovers of the genre.