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'The Mattei Affair' is a 1972 film directed by Francesco Rosi. It depicts the life and mysterious death of Enrico Mattei, an Italian businessman who in the aftermath of World War II managed to avoid the sale of the nascent Italian oil and hydrocarbon industry to US companies and developed them in the Eni, a state-owned oil company which rivaled the 'seven sisters' for oil and gas deals in Northern African and Middle Eastern countries.

The film shared the 'Grand Prix' with 'The Working Class Goes to Heaven' at the 1972 Cannes Film Festival. Italian star Gian Maria Volont was the leading actor in both films.

The film is an innovative hybrid of documentary and fiction, representing Francesco Rosi's concept of cine-inchieste (film investigation). The flashback structure shows the influence of 'Citizen Kane' and Rosi's 'Salvatore Giuliano' (1962). Rosi remains faithful to his neo-realist roots with on-location shooting and non-professional actors. The film is interspersed with footage of the director trying to find his friend, the investigative journalist Mauro De Mauro, who disappeared while doing research for the film. He was killed by the Sicilian Mafia, but like the death of Mattei, De Mauro's case was never solved.Bayman, Louis (ed.) (2011). 'Directory of World Cinema: Italy', Intellect Books, [https://books.google.com/books?id=1QX3v03WY5cC&pg=PA241 p. 241]

Cast



* Gian Maria Volont - Enrico Mattei

* Luigi Squarzina - Journalist

* Furio Colombo - assistant

* Gianfranco Ombuen - Ing. Ferrari

* Edda Ferronao - Mrs. Mattei

* Accursio Di Leo - Sicilian important man #1

* Giuseppe Lo Presti - Sicilian important man #2

* Aldo Barberito - Journalist Mauro De Mauro

* Dario Michaelis - Carabinieri official

* Peter Baldwin - McHale (journalist)

* Franco Graziosi - Minister

* Elio Jotta - Head of commission

* Luciano Colitti - Bertuzzi

* Terenzio Cordova - Police official

* Camillo Milli - Change teller

* Jean Rougeul - American official

* Francesco Rosi - himself

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