We Still Kill the Old Way
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We Still Kill the Old Way is a 1967 Italian
crime film
directed by Elio Petri. It was entered into the 1967 Cannes Film Festival
where it won the award for Best Screenplay
. It is based on the novel To Each His Own
by Leonardo Sciascia
.
Cinema of Italy
The history of Italian cinema began just a few months after the Lumière brothers had patented their Cinematographe, when Pope Leo XIII was filmed for a few seconds in the act of blessing the camera.-Early years:...
crime film
Crime film
Crime films are films which focus on the lives of criminals. The stylistic approach to a crime film varies from realistic portrayals of real-life criminal figures, to the far-fetched evil doings of imaginary arch-villains. Criminal acts are almost always glorified in these movies.- Plays and films...
directed by Elio Petri. It was entered into the 1967 Cannes Film Festival
1967 Cannes Film Festival
-Jury:*Alessandro Blasetti *Georges Lourau *Sergei Bondarchuk *René Bonnell *Jean-Louis Bory *Miklós Jancsó *Claude Lelouch *Shirley MacLaine...
where it won the award for Best Screenplay
Best Screenplay Award (Cannes Film Festival)
The Best Screenplay Award is an award presented at the Cannes Film Festival. It is chosen by the jury from the 'official section' of movies at the festival...
. It is based on the novel To Each His Own
To Each His Own (novel)
To Each His Own is a 1966 detective novel by Leonardo Sciascia in which an introverted academic , in attempting to solve a double-homicide, is murdered for his naive interference in town politics....
by Leonardo Sciascia
Leonardo Sciascia
Leonardo Sciascia was an Italian writer, novelist, essayist, playwright and politician. Some of his works have been made into films, including Open Doors and Il giorno della civetta .- Biography :Sciascia was born in Racalmuto, Sicily...
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Cast
- Gian Maria VolontéGian Maria VolontèGian Maria Volonté was an Italian actor. He is perhaps most famous outside of Italy for his roles as the main villain in Sergio Leone's A Fistful of Dollars and For a Few Dollars More.-Early life:Volonté was born in Milan, and graduated in Rome in 1957...
- Prof. Paolo Laurana - Irene PapasIrene PapasIrene Papas is a Greek actress and occasional singer, who has starred in over seventy films in a career spanning more than fifty years.-Life:...
- Luisa Roscio - Gabriele FerzettiGabriele FerzettiGabriele Ferzetti is an Italian actor. He has more than 160 credits to his name across film, television and stage. His career was at its peak in the 1950s and 1960s....
- Avvocato Rosello - Salvo RandoneSalvo RandoneSalvatore "Salvo" Randone was an Italian theatrical and film actor. He appeared in 45 films between 1943 and 1977.He was married to the actress Neda Naldi-Selected filmography:...
- Prof. Roscio - Luigi PistilliLuigi PistilliLuigi Pistilli was an Italian actor of stage, screen, and television. In theater, he was considered one of the country's best interpreters of Bertolt Brecht's plays in The Threepenny Opera and St Joan of the Stockyards....
- Arturo Manno - Laura Nucci - Roscio's mother
- Mario Scaccia - Curato di Sant'Amo
- Luciana Scalise - Rosina
- Leopoldo TriesteLeopoldo TriesteLeopoldo Trieste was an Italian actor, film director and script writer.Trieste was born in Reggio Calabria...
- 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
- Tanina Zappala
- Valentino Macchi
- Michele Vannucci
- Aldo Cascino - Police commissary