Indagine su un cittadino al di sopra di ogni sospetto 1970

In a time of internal political disturbance, Roman police inspector Gian Maria Volonte (the bad guy in A Fistful of Dollars and For A Few Dollars More) gets that plum assignment: crack down on political dissidents; then proceeds to slash the throat of married mistress Florinda Bolkan ("a beautiful, kinky masochist" - Vincent Canby). But as homicide cops swarm over the murder scene, guess who gets tapped to head the investigation? And, as every clue unearthed - most perversely planted by Volonte himself - leads right back to... is anybody going to do anything about it? As director Elio Petri's split-second edits rocket back and forth between flashback and detection, to the insidious rhythms of Ennio Morricone's score, Investigation becomes a biting critique of Italian police methods and authoritarian repression, a psychological study of a budding crypto-fascist (but is the arrogantly grim-faced Volonte building a case against himself to be punished, or to prove his invincibility?), a probing