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Il caso Mattei
ITALY · 1972

Il caso Mattei

Francesco Rosi
political corruption industrial power conspiracy Italian history mysterious death
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Synopsis

Enrico 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. On October 27, 1962, he died when his private airplane crashed during a flight to Milan. Officially, it is declared an accident, but many journalist

Cinema Atlas Connection
I looked at the Italian films, particularly the ones that came out of the North, like The Conformist, like The Mattei Affair.
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