The Mattei Affair

The Mattei Affair (Il Caso Mattei)

Directed by	Francesco Rosi
Produced by	Franco Cristaldi
Written by	Tito Di Stefano Tonino Guerra
Starring	Gian Maria Volontè Luigi Squarzina Gianfranco Ombuen
Music by	Piero Piccioni
Cinematography	Pasqualino De Santis
Distributed by	Paramount Pictures
Release dates	May, 1972 (premiere at Cannes) 20 May 1973 (New York City only)
Running time	116 minutes
Country	Italy
Language	Italian

The Mattei Affair (Italian: Il Caso Mattei) is a 1972 film directed by Francesco Rosi. It depicts the life and mysterious death of Enrico Mattei, an Italian businessman who in the aftermath of World War II managed to avoid the sale of the nascent Italian oil and hydrocarbon industry to US companies and developed them in the Eni, a state-owned oil company which rivaled the 'seven sisters' for oil and gas deals in northern African and Middle Eastern countries.

The film shared the Grand Prix with The Working Class Goes to Heaven at the 1972 Cannes Film Festival.^[1] Italian star Gian Maria Volontè was the leading actor in both films.

The film is an innovative hybrid of documentary and fiction, representing Francesco Rosi’s concept of cine-inchieste (film investigation). The flashback structure shows the influence of Citizen Kane and Rosi’s Salvatore Giuliano (1962). Rosi remains faithful to his neo-realist roots with on-location shooting and non-professional actors. The film is interspersed with footage of the director trying to find his friend, the investigative journalist Mauro De Mauro, who disappeared while doing research for the film. He was killed by the Sicilian Mafia, but like the death of Mattei, De Mauro’s case was never solved.^[2]

Cast

Gian Maria Volontè - Enrico Mattei
Luigi Squarzina - Journalist
Gianfranco Ombuen - Ing. Ferrari
Edda Ferronao - Mrs. Mattei
Accursio Di Leo - Sicilian important man #1
Giuseppe Lo Presti - Sicilian important man #2
Aldo Barberito - Official
Dario Michaelis - Carabinieri official
Peter Baldwin - McHale (journalist)
Franco Graziosi - Minister
Elio Jotta - Head of commission
Luciano Colitti - Bertuzzi
Terenzio Cordova - Police official
Camillo Milli - Change teller
Jean Rougeul - American official

References

↑ "Festival de Cannes: The Mattei Affair". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 2009-04-13.
↑ Bayman, Louis (ed.) (2011). Directory of World Cinema: Italy, Intellect Books, p. 241

External links

Caso Mattei, Il at the Internet Movie Database
Cannes profile

Films directed by Francesco Rosi

La sfida (1958)
The Magliari (1959)
Salvatore Giuliano (1962)
Hands over the City (1963)
The Moment of Truth (1965)
More Than a Miracle (1967)
Many Wars Ago (1970)
The Mattei Affair (1972)
Lucky Luciano (1973)
Illustrious Corpses (1976)
Christ Stopped at Eboli (1979)
Three Brothers (1981)
Carmen (1984)
Chronicle of a Death Foretold (1987)
The Palermo Connection (1990)
The Truce (1997)

Palme d'Or winning films

Union Pacific (1939)
Iris and the Lieutenant (1946)
The Lost Weekend (1946)
The Red Meadows (1946)
Brief Encounter (1946)
María Candelaria (1946)
Neecha Nagar (1946)
The Turning Point (1946)
La Symphonie Pastorale (1946)
The Last Chance (1946)
Men Without Wings (1946)
Rome, Open City (1946)
The Third Man (1949)
Miss Julie (1951)
Miracle in Milan (1951)
The Tragedy of Othello: The Moor of Venice (1952)
Two Cents Worth of Hope (1952)
The Wages of Fear (1953)
Gate of Hell (1954)
Marty (1955)
The Silent World (1956)
Friendly Persuasion (1957)
The Cranes Are Flying (1958)
Black Orpheus (1959)
La Dolce Vita (1960)
The Long Absence (1961)
Viridiana (1961)
O Pagador de Promessas (1962)
The Leopard (1963)
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964)
The Knack ...and How to Get It (1965)
A Man and a Woman (1966)
The Birds, the Bees and the Italians (1966)
Blowup (1967)
if.... (1969)
MASH (1970)
The Go-Between (1971)
The Working Class Goes to Heaven (1972)
The Mattei Affair (1972)
The Hireling (1973)
Scarecrow (1973)
The Conversation (1974)
Chronicle of the Years of Fire (1975)
Taxi Driver (1976)
Padre Padrone (1977)
The Tree of Wooden Clogs (1978)
Apocalypse Now (1979)
The Tin Drum (1979)
All That Jazz (1980)
Kagemusha (1980)
Man of Iron (1981)
Missing (1982)
Yol (1982)
The Ballad of Narayama (1983)
Paris, Texas (1984)
When Father Was Away on Business (1985)
The Mission (1986)
Under the Sun of Satan (1987)
Pelle the Conqueror (1988)
Sex, Lies, and Videotape (1989)
Wild at Heart (1990)
Barton Fink (1991)
The Best Intentions (1992)
Farewell My Concubine (1993)
The Piano (1993)
Pulp Fiction (1994)
Underground (1995)
Secrets & Lies (1996)
Taste of Cherry (1997)
The Eel (1997)
Eternity and a Day (1998)
Rosetta (1999)
Dancer in the Dark (2000)
The Son's Room (2001)
The Pianist (2002)
Elephant (2003)
Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004)
The Child (2005)
The Wind That Shakes the Barley (2006)
4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (2007)
The Class (2008)
The White Ribbon (2009)
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (2010)
The Tree of Life (2011)
Amour (2012)
Blue Is the Warmest Colour (2013)
Winter Sleep (2014)
Dheepan (2015)
I, Daniel Blake (2016)

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