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.
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- Alternate presentation with English language title sequence and audio
- Archival documentary featuring interviews with writer Ugo Pirro, composer Luis Bacalov and Paola Petri (32 mins)
- Interview with make-up artist Pier Antonio Mecacci (2021, 29 mins)
- Interview with Roberto Curti, author of Elio Petri: Investigation of a Filmmaker (2021, 23 mins)
- Interview with Fabrizio Catalano, grandson of author Leonardo Sciascia (2021, 31 mins)
- Trailer
- Limited edition booklet featuring new writing on the film by scholar David Melville and a statement by Petri