The Butcher
Search results
Plot. Total, a young bank cashier, is allergic to money and feels only contempt for his customers who in his eyes built their wealth on criminal or corrupt activities. After witnessing an armed robbery in his bank, he resigns from his job and turns to theft.
Oct 4, 1973 · Property Is No Longer a Theft: Directed by Elio Petri. With Ugo Tognazzi, Flavio Bucci, Daria Nicolodi, Mario Scaccia. A bank cashier who's allergic to banknotes quits his job after an armed robbery. He decides to start a new life--as a thief.
- (1.3K)
- Comedy, Drama
- Elio Petri
- 1973-10-04
Elio Petri sees fit to take apart a society based on possessions in this truly absurd sort of crime film come strange comedy. The plot focuses on a lowly bank clerk who, upset about living in poverty, decides to start stealing from a wealthy butcher - who in turn uses the crimes to own advantage by claiming insurance.
- (2.5K)
- Labrador Films, Quasars Film Company
- Elio Petri
Mar 16, 2013 · So, paradoxically, and only slightly tongue–in-cheek, it turns out that property is no longer a theft because theft is the fundamental form of modern economic and social existence.
- Gino Moliterno
The revolution that Property Is No Longer a Theft calls for is a revolution of the mind. The coin and the literalism and the symbiotic relationship that the thief and the property owner share is called ideology.
- Elio Petri
Dec 4, 2017 · Capitalism and corruption are the main courses served in Elio Petri’s darkly comic Property is No Longer a Theft ( La proprietà non è più un furto ). When a lowly bank clerk (Flavio Bucci) is denied a loan, he goes on a nihilistic crusade against one of the bank’s customers, a wealthy butcher (Ugo Tognazzi) with secrets to hide of his own.
People also ask
What does property is no longer a theft mean?
Is property theft?
When was property is no longer a theft screened?
Is lost property a theft?
Apr 12, 2017 · “Banks are for people who have money,” solemnly intones the bank director (Julien Guiomar) early in Property Is No Longer a Theft, Italian filmmaker Elio Petri’s dark satire on ownership and its discontents.
