Illustrious Corpses (1976)
- Original title
- Cadaveri eccellenti
- Directed by
- Francesco Rosi
- Genre
- drama film, crime film, political thriller film
- Country
- France, Italy
- Runtime
- 2h
- Rated
- PG
- Rating
- 6.8 of 10 from 103 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A police detective investigates a series of murders of judges. The clues point to a conspiracy within the Italian government.
tensebleakslow-burnsuspensefuldarkpoliticalcerebralunsettling
What happens
Illustrious Corpses (Italian: Cadaveri eccellenti, French: Cadavres exquis) is a 1976 Italian-French thriller film directed by Francesco Rosi and starring Lino Ventura, based on the novel Equal Danger by Leonardo Sciascia (1971). In 2008, the film was included in the Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage's 100 Italian films to be saved, a list of 100 films that "have changed the collective memory of the country between 1942 and 1978." (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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