Illustrious Corpses
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Illustrious Corpses (Cadaveri eccellenti) is a 1976 thriller film directed by Francesco Rosi and starring Lino Ventura. The film was adapted from Leonardo Sciascia's novel Equal Danger a novel on organized crime. Its Italian poster art was designed by Enrico Baj. Cadaveri eccellenti literally means Excellent Cadavers and is also the name of a surrealist technique known in English as exquisite corpse.
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Cast
- Lino Ventura - Inspector Amerigo Rogas
- Tino Carraro - Chief of Police
- Marcel Bozzuffi - The lazy
- Paolo Bonacelli - Dr. Maxia
- Alain Cuny - Judge Rasto
- Maria Carta - Madame Cres
- Luigi Pistilli - Cusan
- Tina Aumont - The prostitute
- Renato Salvatori - Police commisary
- Paolo Graziosi - Galano
- Anna Proclemer - Nocio's wife
- Fernando Rey - Security Minister
- Max von Sydow - Supreme Court's president
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