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

How it feels

A police detective investigates a series of murders of judges. The clues point to a conspiracy within the Italian government.

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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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