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A FRESH ALLOWANCE AT MIDNIGHT · ISTANBUL TIME

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The Mattei Affair posterA FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOK

THE FEATURE PRESENTATION

MOVIE1972 1h 56m ITA

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Another Rosi inquiry into the nexus of crime, state interests, and international influence, told with the same restrained, documentary-like rigor rather than gangster-film glamour.

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Petri trades investigative structure for furious worker alienation, but matches the era’s sharply analytical Italian cinema and its distrust of industrial power and official narratives.

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A stylized, tense political thriller about authority testing its own impunity; it has the same corrosive fascination with institutions that can manipulate truth from inside.

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Costa-Gavras delivers a lean political procedural in which bureaucratic machinery turns reality into an official fiction, echoing Mattei’s atmosphere of evidence, pressure, and concealed interests.

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01 / THE STORY

A little about the film.

rico Mattei helped change Italy's future, first as freedom-fighter against the Nazis, then as an investor in methane gas through a public company, A.G.I.P., and ultimately as the head of ENI, a state body formed for the development of oil resources. October 27, 1962, he died when his private airplane crashed, one minute before it should land at Milan airport. Officially, he died of a flight accident. Actually, many journalists explored other plausible reasons for the untimely landing of the small aircraft.

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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME

The people who bring it to life.

Peter Baldwin

Mc Hale

Aldo Barberito

Mauro De Mauro

Gian Maria Volonté

Gian Maria Volonté

Enrico Mattei