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Property Is No Longer a Theft (1973)

Property Is No Longer a Theft poster
Original title
La proprietà non è più un furto
Directed by
Elio Petri
Genre
comedy film
Country
Italy
Runtime
2h 06m
Rated
18
Rating
7.2 of 10 from 99 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

A bank clerk becomes obsessed with a wealthy butcher and declares war on him. The clerk tries everything to steal from the butcher, but the butcher resists in strange ways.

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What happens

Property Is No Longer a Theft (Italian: La proprietà non è più un furto) is a 1973 Italian-French comedy drama film directed by Elio Petri. The film is considered the conclusion to Petri's so-called Trilogy of Neuroses, showing the neurosis of money, along with Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion (neurosis of power), and The Working Class Goes to Heaven (neurosis of work). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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