The Tenth Victim
La Decima Vittima
Elio Petri
In the future, there are no more wars. To provide an outlet for human aggression, volunteers are chosen to participate in mortal manhunts where they are alternately hunters and the hunted. After killing her ninth victim, Caroline Meredith is ready to break her record. The computer chooses her next victim, Marco Poletti, who also has won nine victories...
With : Marcello Mastroianni, Ursula Andress, Elsa Martinelli, Salvo Randone, Massimo Serato, Luce Bonifassy, George Wang, Milo Quesada
Screenplay : T. Guerra, G. Salvioni, Elio Petri, Enno Flaiano d'après le roman de Robert Shekley
Image : Glanni di Venanzo
Sound : Carlo Palmieri
Music : Piero Piccioni
Editing : Ruggero Mastroianni
Screenplay : T. Guerra, G. Salvioni, Elio Petri, Enno Flaiano d'après le roman de Robert Shekley
Image : Glanni di Venanzo
Sound : Carlo Palmieri
Music : Piero Piccioni
Editing : Ruggero Mastroianni
Production : Champion CC / Concordia Films
Distribution: Satlor, TVOR
Distribution: Satlor, TVOR
"It's a Pop film, a satire of an aesthetic or objects that were, or would become, fashionable throughout Europe. My idea was also to put forward a hypothesis about the future, a sort of distillation of the imperfections of daily reality." (E. Petri) "The Tenth Victim, like Fahrenheit 451, is a philosophical fable, but a fable in which irony is the motivating and revelatory force. With just a slight push, the slightest difference, our reality could veer towards another reality just as coherent, absurd and monstrous as our own." (Les lettres françaises, February 1967)