The Mattei Affair
1972/01/26 • Released • English, Italian
On October 27, 1962, a plane crashed in Bascape, Italy, sparking an international intrigue...sabotage...disappearances and murders! These events are all the more bizarre because they are TRUE. The central figure was Enrico Mattei.
Overview
Enrico Mattei helped change Italy’s future, first as freedom-fighter against the Nazis, then as an investor in methane gas through a public company, A.G.I.P., and ultimately as the head of ENI, a state body formed for the development of oil resources. On October 27, 1962, he died when his private airplane crashed during a flight to Milan. Officially, it is declared an accident, but many journalists explore other plausible reasons for Mattei's untimely death.
Director : Francesco Rosi
Casts
Gian Maria Volonté
Enrico Mattei
Luigi Squarzina
liberal journalist
Peter Baldwin
William McHale
Renato Romano
journalist
Franco Graziosi
Minister of State partecipations
Gianfranco Ombuen
Mr. Ferrari, the engineer
Elio Jotta
head of the Committee of Inquiry
Edda Ferronao
Mrs. Mattei
Accursio Di Leo
Sicilian character
Terenzio Cordova
police officer
Giuseppe Lo Presti
Sicilian character
Camillo Milli
TV journalist
Aldo Barberito
Mauro De Mauro
Jean Rougeul
French journalist
Dario Michaelis
Carabinieri officer
Vittorio Fanfoni
journalist
Néstor Garay
journalist
Francesco Rosi
Self (uncredited)
Edy Biagetti
Mattei's bodyguard (uncredited)
Giovanna Gravina Volonté
Self / Little Girl at Reception in Sicily (uncredited)
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