'Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion' Director: Elio Petri (1970) Criterion Collection Blu-ray | 4K restoration | Italian w/ English subtitles

Director Elio Petri maintains a tricky balance between absurdity and realism in telling the Kafkaesque tale of a Roman police inspector investigating a heinous crime—which he himself committed. Both a compelling character study and a disturbing commentary on the draconian government crackdowns in Italy in the late 1960s and early ’70s, Petri’s kinetic portrait of surreal bureaucracy is a perversely pleasurable rendering of controlled chaos.

Starring a commanding Gian Maria Volontè and with a droll, quirky score by Ennio Morricone that expertly evokes the inspector's twisted psyche

Special features include:
- Archival interview with director Elio Petri, conducted by critic and filmmaker Alexandre Astruc
- Elio Petri: Notes About a Filmmaker (2005), a ninety-minute documentary on the director’s career, featuring interviews with friends, collaborators, and filmmakers
- New interview with film scholar Camilla Zamboni
- Investigation of a Citizen Named Volontè (2008), a fifty-minute documentary about actor Gian Maria Volontè
- Music in His Blood, an interview with composer Ennio Morricone from 2010, conducted by film critic Fabio Ferzetti
- Essay by film scholar Evan Calder Williams and excerpts from a 2001 book by screenwriter Ugo Pirro