Property Is No Longer a Theft (1973)

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

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.

satiricalabsurdistanxiouscynicalprovocativefreneticcriticalunsettling

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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