After two men are killed on a hunting trip a lonely professor (Gian Maria Volonté, The Working Class Goes to Heaven), takes it upon himself to investigate what he believes was not a simple honour killing. As his search intensifies, politics and the Church become implicated in a complex conspiracy orchestrated by a powerful criminal organisation. Elio Petri’s We Still Kill the Old Way, based on the novel by Leonardo Sciascia (The Day of the Owl), is a tense paranoid thriller that features Volonté in one of his finest performances and a superb score by Luis Bacalov (Django). Winner of awards for Best Screenplay at the Cannes Film Festival and Best Actor at the Italian Golden Globes, the film is made available on home video for the first time in the UK.
LIMITED EDITION BLU-RAY SPECIAL FEATURES
2K restoration of the film by Movietime in association with Museo Nazionale del Cinema Torino, on Blu-ray for the first time in the UK
Original uncompressed mono PCM audio
Archival documentary featuring interviews with writer Ugo Pirro, composer Luis Bacalov and Paola Petri
Interview with make-up artist Pierantonio Mecacci
Interview with Roberto Curti, author of Elio Petri: Investigation of a Filmmaker
Interview with Fabrizio Catalano, grandson of author Leonardo Sciascia
Trailer
Newly translated English subtitles
Reversible sleeve featuring artwork based on original posters
Limited edition booklet featuring new writing on the film by scholar David Wingrove
Limited edition of 3000 copies, presented in full-height Scanavo packaging with removable OBI strip leaving packaging free of certificates and markings
Leonardo (Franco Nero, The Day of the Owl) is a celebrated artist plagued by nightmares which stop him from completing his work. His agent and sometime lover, Flavia (Vanessa Redgrave, The Devils), encourages him to relax, so he buys a country villa. Once there he begins tracing the story of the previous owner while Flavia’s presence in the house seems to awaken something as she encounters one mysterious accident after another. Part ghost story, part meditation on the creative process told through the excesses of the 1960s. Elio Petri (The Working Class Goes to Heaven) brilliantly fuses these ideas in ways that are at times shocking, yet thought-provoking in their investigation of art, sex and madness, set to an eerie score by Ennio Morricone.
LIMITED EDITION BLU-RAY SPECIAL FEATURES
High-Definition digital transfer, presented with optional English and Italian audio tracks, on Blu-ray for the first time in the UK
Uncompressed mono PCM audio
New interview on the film by author Stephen Thrower (2024)
Archival interview with actor Franco Nero
Interview with make-up artist Pierantonio Mecacci
Visual essay by critic and filmmaker Kat Ellinger on the theme of masculinity in the film and Petri’s work (2024)
Trailer
New and improved English subtitle translation for Italian audio and English SDH for English audio
Reversible sleeve featuring artwork based on original posters
Limited edition booklet featuring new writing on the film by Simon Abrams
Limited edition of 3000 copies, presented in full-height Scanavo packaging with removable OBI strip leaving packaging free of certificates and markings