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States of Danger and Deceit: European Political Thrillers IN the 1970s Sat 4 Nov – Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion, 1970 Tue 12 Dec We open the season with Costa-Gavras’ seminal work Z on Sat 4 Nov, 20:20. STATES OF DANGER AND DECEIT: See pages 6 – 9 for our Director in Focus: Costa-Gavras. EUROPEAN POLITICAL THRILLERS IN THE MATTEI AFFAIR (U) + POST-SCREENING THE 1970S DISCUSSION (IL CASO MATTEI) Sun 5 Nov, 18:15 . Dir /IT 1972/116 mins/Italian wEng ST Gian Maria Volontè, Luigi Squarzina, Peter Baldwin A key title in the development of Francesco In the winter of 2017 HOME presents a season of nail-biting thrillers that Rosi’s style of investigative thriller, The Mattei expose the political tensions that reverberated across Europe in the 1970s. Affair focuses on the death of , an A decade when the social turmoil that marked the late gave way to a influential businessman who made enemies in the mafia. His story is interspersed with Rosi’s more strident politics that involved stark and sometimes violent contrasts investigation into the disappearance of his friend, between left and right. A decade that was scarred by the emergence of journalist Mauro De Mauro, who was undertaking uncompromisingly radical groups such as the Red Army Faction and the Red research for the film. Driven by a thoughtful Brigades. performance from Gian Maria Volontè, The Mattei Affair is one of Rosi’s finest works. In response to this charged moment a number of filmmakers across Europe This screening will be followed by an informal turned to the format of the thriller. Stylish and enduringly popular with post-screening discussion led by Adalgisa audiences, they saw it as the perfect vehicle through which to explore Serio, Italian Language Tutor CDLCI and conspiracies, authoritarian regimes, and political violence. Freelance Language Consultant, author of Collana Cinema Italia and Italiano al cinema. Beginning with Costa-Gavras’ legendary Z (1969), States of Danger and Deceit: European Political Thrillers in the 1970s offers audiences the chance to discover or revisit some of the decade’s key works including: Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion (1970), The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum (1975) and (1976). Films that still influence the way in which politically engaged filmmakers approach their work and engage with popular forms and genres. Programme curated by Andy Willis, Professor of Film Studies at the University of Salford and Senior Visiting Curator: Film at HOME, produced by Rachel Hayward, HOME’s Film Programme Manager, and coordinated by Jessie Gibbs, The Mattei Affair, 1972 HOME Film Team. ONE HOUR INTRO/ POLITICAL THRILLERS IN Programmed by HOME as part of BFI Thriller season, Who Can You Trust? THE 1970S: FROM Z TO CIRCLE OF DECEIT Presented with support of the BFI, awarding funds from The National Lottery. Wed 8 Nov, 18:15 Politically the 1970s was a turbulent decade and many Please note all films will start at the advertised time with no adverts or filmmakers, writers and actors felt driven to explore trailers, please check website for any certificate changes. Where indicated some of its most pressing issues on screen. One of the screenings will feature a BSL interpreted guest introduction, please check results was a memorable cycle of politically motivated thrillers that attempted to bring the charged website for details on intro speakers. atmosphere of the streets onto cinema screens across Europe. Through an exploration of some of the key works and practitioners present in States of Danger and Deceit, this One Hour Intro will help contextualise the season. Led by Andy Willis, Professor of Film Studies at the University of Salford and Senior Visiting Curator: Film Z, 1969 at HOME. 2 3 INVESTIGATION OF A CITIZEN ABOVE SUSPICION (18) + INTRO DON’T TORTURE A DUCKLING (18) (INDAGINE SU UN CITTADINO AL DI + INTRO SOPRA DI OGNI SOSPETTO) (NON SI SEVIZIA UN PAPERINO) Wed 8 Nov, 19:30 Sat 18 Nov, 20:40 Dir /IT 1970/115 mins/Italian wEng ST Dir Lucio Fulci/IT 1972/102 mins/Italian wEng ST Gian Maria Volontè, Florinda Bolkan, Gianni Santuccio Florinda Bolkan, Barbara Bouchet, Tomas Milian In Elio Petri’s visually stunning and beautifully A great example of the ways in which a popular composed film, a corrupt police official decides to show form, here the giallo style of violent thriller, can how untouchable he is by creating a murder scene be used to critique society’s institutions. Set in where the evidence can only lead investigators to him. rural , Lucio Fulci’s film focuses on a series of Starring the iconic left-wing actor Gian Maria Volontè brutal murders where the killer seems to target who provides a mesmerising performance, this is a sly young boys on the verge of adulthood. As the and slick condemnation of the state and the police media flocks to the village where the victims lived, from one of Italy’s major political filmmakers of the suspicion falls on those residents who due to their 1960s and 1970s. lifestyles are considered outsiders. Rumour has it that Fulci was subsequently blacklisted due to his Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion, 1970 critical representation of Italy’s powerful social institutions. THE LONG GOOD FRIDAY (18) Thu 9 Nov, 18:15 Dir John Mackenzie/GB 1980/115 mins Bob Hoskins, , Paul Freeman In this landmark British thriller, gangster Harold Shand, memorably played with great relish by Bob Hoskins, dreams of developing London’s rundown dockland and Don’t Torture a Duckling, 1972 becoming a legitimate businessman. He also wants a partnership with the American Mafia. However, his plans are put in jeopardy when a number of his associates are attacked. Increasingly paranoid, Harold sets out to discover who is behind them and slowly realises the answer is much more political than he ever The Long Good Friday, 1980 imagined.

THE DAY OF THE JACKAL (15) DAYS OF ’36 (12) + INTRO (MERES TOU ’36) Sat 11 Nov, 15:30 RELAXED SCREENING* Sun 12 Nov, 15:15 + POST-SCREENING Mon 20 Nov, 20:30 DISCUSSION Dir Theodoros Angelopoulos/GR 1972/104 mins/Greek wEng ST Kazan, Kostas Pavlou, Thanos Grammenos Dir /GB FR 1973/143 mins , Terence Alexander, Michel Auclair During the 1970s Angelopoulos made films that A UK-France co-production, Fred Zinnemann’s legendary were formally challenging and highly stylised. On film explores the attempts of a right-wing paramilitary occasion these used the narrative conventions of group to assassinate French President General De the political thriller to a very different effect to Gaulle following the independence of Algeria. Boasting slick films that make up the majority of this season. a career-defining performance from Edward Fox and In Days of ’36 an imprisoned murderer takes a replete with many political twists and turns, The Day of government official hostage in prison sparking a the Jackal is one of the best thrillers of the 1970s. political crisis. Full of Angelopoulos’ trademark symmetrical compositions, this reads like a thriller The screening on Sun 12 Nov will be followed by but through the director’s use of film form resists an informal post-screening discussion led by Roy the normal pleasures of the genre. Stafford, Freelance Film Educator. This screening will be introduced by Dr *Designed for people with autism spectrum conditions Eleftheria Rania Kosmidou, Lecturer in Film and their families. See homemcr.org/accessibility for Studies at the University of Salford. The Day of the Jackal, 1973 details. Days of ’36, 1972 4 5 CURATOR ANDY WILLIS TELLS US reflected in its opening where a about his activities in the country, the DIRECTOR MORE ABOUT OUR DIRECTOR IN statement appears: ‘Any similarity to government unleashes death squads FOCUS, COSTA-GAVRAS actual events or persons living or dead to counter their influence. is not coincidental. It is intentional’. IN FOCUS: Z (1969) was director Costa-Gavras’ Following State of Siege Costa-Gavras third feature following stints as an After casting in his first turned his attention to the issue of assistant to influential directors such feature, Costa-Gavras had become a collaboration during the German COSTA- as René Clair, and Jean close associate of the actor and his occupation of France with Special Becker. He had made his directorial friend the scriptwriter Jorge Semprún. Section. Once again utilising a tension- debut in 1965 with Compartiment Together the three would work on building narrative, the film focuses on GAVRAS tueurs (The Sleeping Car Murder) another two landmark political thrillers a group of judges set up to select six and during that film’s production of the 1970s, The Confession (1970) people to be killed in response to the solidified his friendship with cast and Special Section (1975). Resistance’s killing of a German officer. members and Yves The Confession is an adaptation of Costa-Gavras’ work in the 1970s Montand, both at the time doyens of ’s account of how he, a represents some of the highest the French left. Once in these circles former resistance fighter who became achievements within the cycle of Costa-Gavras began to work on films a Czech Communist Party official, fell political thrillers produced in Europe that reflected his humanitarian, anti- foul of the regime and was eventually during this period. Later he would authoritarian and left-leaning political sentenced to life in prison. The continue to make political thrillers perspectives. His work also revealed resulting film is a tough condemnation in the USA with the award-winning a deep-rooted desire to engage with of totalitarianism and brought Missing (1982), Betrayed (1988) and audiences, a commitment that led him Montand in particular into conflict Music Box (1989) before returning to to turn to the political thriller with Z. with the French Communist Party with Europe to make films such as Amen Z was inspired by events in , whom he had long had close links. (2002) which explored the possible links between the Vatican and Nazi notably the assassination of politician Montand’s next collaboration with Germany. Gregorios Lambrakis in 1963, and Costa-Gavras, State of Siege, did focuses on the investigation that not involve Semprún but drew on follows the death of a charismatic the talents of Battle of Algiers politician leading the opposition to an screenwriter Franco Solinas. In this increasingly dictatorial government instance their attention turned to the in an unnamed state. Whilst it was United States’ interventions in Latin planned well in advance of the events America, using Uruguay as a model. of May ’68 in , Z’s release in Montand here plays a CIA operative Europe in early 1969 was able to – covertly ‘advising’ the pro-American intersect with audiences’ growing government on things like torture desire for films with political themes. – who is kidnapped by left-wing The political nature of Z itself is guerrillas. As his captors question him

6 7 Z (15) + INTRO Sat 4 Nov, 20:20 Dir Costa-Gavras/FR 1969/127 mins/French wEngST Yves Montand, , Jean-Louis Trintignant Winner of the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film in 1970, after also having been nominated for Best Picture, Z remains one of the most influential political thrillers of all time. Jean-Louis Trintignant plays a magistrate assigned to investigate the SPECIAL SECTION (PG) + INTRO supposed accidental death of a left-wing politician, (SECTION SPÉCIALE) memorably played by Yves Montand. In the course of his work he uncovers a series of deceits and lies Wed 22 Nov, 18:15 that attempt to hide the real political motivation of Dir Costa-Gavras/FR IT West Germany 1975/118 mins/ French the killing. wEng ST Z, 1969 Louis Seigner, Roland Bertin, Michael Lonsdale With Special Section director Costa-Gavras turned his attention to events in France during STATE OF SIEGE (15) World War II. When a German officer is killed the (ÉTAT DE SIÈGE) Nazi occupying forces demand a quick response Sun 19 Nov, 13:00 + POST-SCREENING threatening to kill 100 civilians. To appease them a DISCUSSION special court is created, presided over by a group Tue 21 Nov, 20:30 + INTRO of ambitious and subservient judges, with the Dir Costa-Gavras/FR IT 1972/120 mins/French wEng ST aim of convicting a group of six men coldly used Yves Montand, Renato Salvatori, O. E. Hasse as scapegoats. Another of his engaging political Written by Franco Solinas (The Battle of Algiers), films, Costa-Gavras was awarded Best Director at State of Siege is perhaps the greatest political thriller the 1975 Cannes film festival for Special Section. of the 1970s. Costa-Gavras once again calls on Yves This screening will be introduced by Isabelle Montand to lead this story of an American, supposedly Vanderschelden, Manchester Metropolitan only working as an agricultural advisor regarding University. international development, who is kidnapped by guerrillas in Uruguay. The taut story is told against the backdrop of repressive politics, death squads and American involvement in . The Costa-Gavras films are presented with the support of the The screening on Sun 19 Nov will be followed by an Alliance Française de Manchester, informal post-screening discussion led by Maggie the official centre for French Hoffgen, Freelance Film Educator. language and Culture State of Siege, 1972 Special Section, 1975 8 9 Killer Cop, 1975 The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum, 1975 Illustrious Corpses, 1976 Man on the Roof, 1976

KILLER COP (CTBA) DEBATE/ THE SPACE AND THE LOST HONOUR OF ILLUSTRIOUS CORPSES (PG) ONE HOUR INTRO/ BECK MAN ON THE ROOF (15) (LA POLIZIA HA LE MANI PLACE OF WOMEN IN THE KATHARINA BLUM (15) + Q&A (CADAVERI ECCELLENTI) AND THE ROOTS OF NORDIC + INTRO LEGATE) POLITICAL THRILLER (DIE VERLORENE EHRE DER NOIR (MANNEN PÅ TAKET) KATHARINA BLUM) Tue 28 Nov, 18:15 Thu 23 Nov, 18:20 Sun 26 Nov, 14:00 Dir Francesco Rosi/IT FR 1976/120 mins/ Wed 29 Nov, 18:15 Wed 29 Nov, 19:45 Italian wEng ST Dir Luciano Ercoli/IT 1975/97 mins/Italian Tickets £4 full / £3 concs Sun 26 Nov, 15:30 Tickets £4 full / £3 concs Dir Bo Widerberg/SE 1976/110 mins/ wEng ST , Tino Carraro, Marcel Bozzuffi Swedish wEng ST This discussion will focus on the Dirs Volker Schlöndorff, Margarethe von Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö’s ten Claudio Cassinelli, Arthur Kennedy, Franco Trotta/West Germany 1975/106 mins/ In an Italy rife with mistrust Carl-Gustaf Lindstedt, Sven Wollter, Fabrizi place made available for women German wEng ST and paranoia judges are being crime novels from the 1960s and Thomas Hellberg In this Milan-set low budget gem, in the political thrillers of the Angela Winkler, Mario Adorf, Dieter Laser murdered. Lino Ventura’s quietly ‘70s featuring Inspector Martin Adapted from the Martin Beck director Luciano Ercoli creates 1970s. Given the strong presence A key political film of the New effective detective is appointed to Beck have had a major impact on novel The Abominable Man by a political thriller full of 1970s of women in a number of radical German Cinema, Volker Schlöndorff investigate who is responsible and Swedish – and international – film legendary left-leaning Swedish Italian style. After a terrorist bomb organisations of the decade was and Margarethe von Trotta co- soon begins to unearth an array and TV. Their importance lies crime writers Maj Sjöwall and Per explodes in a busy hotel the official similar space made available for directed and adapted The Lost of corruption and duplicity within partly in their critical commentary Wahlöö. Man on the Roof is a investigation gets caught up in their representation on screen? Honour of Katharina Blum from the corridors of power. Highly on Swedish society, which in turn great example of a 1970s Nordic politics and bureaucracy. As the Reference will be made to a number the controversial novel by Heinrich atmospheric, this is perhaps the inspired Henning Mankell and other Noir film. Here Beck, played by bombers go on the run, the only of films screened during States of Böll. Set in a climate of fear and archetypal political film of the more recent crime narratives from Carl-Gustaf Lindstedt, and his hope of catching them lies with Danger and Deceit but will also paranoia, Angela Winkler plays the 1970s and displays to great effect Nordic countries. This introductory team investigate a brutal murder Cassinelli’s determined narcotics make reference to other works of young woman of the title whose life Rosi’s brilliant visual style. talk will explore the Beck legacy in a hospital, encountering cop, who accidently got caught in the period. is slowly destroyed by the media and the distinctiveness of ‘Nordic stories of police brutality as they Screening from a 35mm print the mayhem. This highly effective See website for details of speakers. following her meeting a young man Noir’ films and TV series. progress, which in turn leads to a Poliziotteschi shows how the who is suspected by the authorities Led by Roy Stafford, Freelance Film thrilling climax on the rooftops of radical politics of the decade bled of being a political activist. Educator Stockholm. A great opportunity to into genre filmmaking in Italy. see the roots of the current wave We will be joined by Angela of Scandinavian crime dramas. Winkler for a post-screening Q&A. See website for Actor This screening will be introduced in Focus: Angela Winkler by Roy Stafford, Freelance Film information. Man on the Roof and One Hour Intro Educator. are presented with the support of Embassy of Sweden in London 10 11 Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion, 1970 EVENT/ THE LEGACY OF THE 1970S POLITICAL THRILLER Tue 5 Dec, 18:30 Tickets £4 full / £3 concs To discuss the politics of utilising the format of the thriller and the legacy of the work contained in States of Danger and Deceit, curator Andy Willis will be joined by Berlin- based artist Declan Clarke, whose film-based work is greatly informed by both the politics of the 1970s and the aesthetic forms adopted within the films in the season.

Declan Clarke has presented solo exhibitions at Tromsø Kunstforening, Norway and The Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin. He also co-curated Cornerhouse’s exhibition, Anguish and Enthusiasm: What Do You Do With Your Revolution Once You’ve Got it? and his film The Most Cruel of all Goddesses was presented at HOME’s opening exhibition, The Heart is Deceitful Above All Things in 2014.

TWILIGHT’S LAST GLEAMING (15) + INTRO Tue 5 Dec, 20:00 Dir /West Germany US 1977/144 mins , Richard Widmark, Roscoe Lee Browne A West German-US co-production shot mainly at the Bavaria film studios, this neglected work is one of Robert Aldrich’s best films. It is driven by a wonderful performance from Burt Lancaster who plays a renegade US general disillusioned by his country’s involvement in Vietnam and aware of a top secret document that acknowledged the war could not be won. To try and make the powers that be reveal the document to the public he hijacks a nuclear silo and THE FLIGHT (CTBA) + INTRO & POST- threatens to launch a series of bombs. Utilising split SCREENING DISCUSSION screens to great effect, this is a taut political thriller of (DIE FLUCHT) the highest order. Twilight’s Last Gleaming, 1977 Sun 3 Dec, 16:00 Dir Roland Graf/East Germany 1977/94 mins/German wEng ST Armin Mueller-Stahl, Jenny Gröllmann, Erika Pelikowsky OPERATION OGRE (CTBA) One of the final films made in East Germany (OGRO) featuring the great actor Armin Mueller-Stahl – he Tue 12 Dec, 18:15 would later memorably link up with Costa-Gavras Dir Gillo Pontecorvo/ES IT 1979/115 mins/Italian wEng ST in the US for Music Box (1989). In The Flight he Gian Maria Volontè, Ángela Molina, Saverio Marconi plays a doctor who, when he dutifully follows From the director of Battle of Algiers and starring procedure and applies to travel outside the GDR Gian Maria Volontè alongside Eusebio Poncela, to attend a conference, is refused permission. José Sacristán and Ángela Molina. This story of the Dismayed by the state bureaucracy, he becomes assassination by ETA of Colonel Carrero Blanco, involved with an underground network who promise Spanish dictator Franco’s right hand man, comes they can get him out of the country. Given it was with heavyweight credentials. Less well known than made in the East all does not go to plan. Pontecorvo’s 1960s classic, this is a taut thriller that The Flight will be introduced by artist Declan offers a complex set of positions in relation to what Clarke and will be followed by a post-screening some called an act of terror and others political discussion with Declan Clarke and season resistance. The Flight, 1977 curator Andy Willis ©DEFA-Stiftung/Klaus Goldmann Operation Ogre, 1979 12 13 ACTOR IN STATES OF DANGER AND FOCUS: DECEIT: EUROPEAN POLITICAL ONE HOUR INTRO/ BRUNO GANZ: SCREEN CHAMELEON THRILLERS IN THE 1970S Sat 9 Dec, 17:00 This One Hour Intro will focus on the work of the CALENDAR Swiss-German actor who, at the age of 75, can look back on a long and varied career both in theatre and cinema. He has not shied away from difficult and Sat 4 Nov 20:20 EVENT Z (15) + Intro controversial work, which makes him very interesting Sun 5 Nov 18:15 EVENT The Mattei Affair (U) + Post-screening discussion to explore. The talk will be accompanied by film clips Knife in the Head, 1978 illustrating the versatility of this charismatic actor. Wed 8 Nov 18:15 EVENT One Hour Intro/ Political Thrillers in the 1970s: From Z Led by Maggie Hoffgen, Freelance Film Educator. to Circle of Deceit Wed 8 Nov 19:30 EVENT Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion (18) + Intro KNIFE IN THE HEAD (15) Thu 9 Nov 18:15 The Long Good Friday (18) (MESSER IM KOPF) Sat 11 Nov 15:30 The Day of the Jackal (15) RELAXED SCREENING Sat 9 Dec, 18:20 Sun 12 Nov 15:15 EVENT The Day of the Jackal (15) + Post-screening discussion Dir Reinhard Hauff/West Germany 1978/108 mins/German wEng ST Bruno Ganz, Angela Winkler, Hans Christian Blech Sat 18 Nov 20:40 EVENT Don’t Torture a Duckling (18) + Intro Shot in the head whilst seemingly innocently visiting his wife at a youth centre and left paralysed, Hoffman Sun 19 Nov 13:00 EVENT State of Siege (15) + post-screening discussion (Bruno Ganz) finds himself caught in-between the Mon 20 Nov 20:30 EVENT Days of ’36 (12) + Intro police and terrorists as he tries to piece together his memories of the event rather than accepting the Tue 21 Nov 20:30 EVENT State of Siege (15) + Intro various versions told by others who wish to exploit Wed 22 Nov 18:15 EVENT Special Section (PG) + Intro his injury for their own ends. Driven by a superlative performance by Ganz, Hauff’s film reflects the paranoia Thu 23 Nov 18:20 Killer Cop (CTBA) and political tension within West Germany as the Knife in the Head, 1978 1970s drew to a close. Sun 26 Nov 14:00 EVENT Debate: The Space and Place of Women in the Political Thriller Screening from a 16mm print Sun 26 Nov 15:30 EVENT The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum (15) + Q&A CIRCLE OF DECEIT (18) + POST-SCREENING DISCUSSION Tue 28 Nov 18:15 Illustrious Corpses (PG) (DIE FÄLSCHUNG) Wed 29 Nov 18:15 EVENT One Hour Intro/ Beck and the Roots of Nordic Noir Sun 10 Dec, 16:00 Wed 29 Nov 19:45 EVENT Man on the Roof (15) + Intro Dir Volker Schlöndorff/West Germany FR 1981/108 mins/German and French wEng ST Sun 3 Dec 16:00 EVENT The Flight (CTBA) + Post-screening discussion Bruno Ganz, , Jean Carmet In Circle of Deceit Schlöndorff deftly mixes the personal Tue 5 Dec 18:30 EVENT The Legacy of the 1970s Political Thriller and the political to great effect in a film that stars two Tue 5 Dec 20:00 EVENT Twilight’s Last Gleaming (15) + Intro of the biggest names of the New German Cinema, Bruno Ganz and Hanna Schygulla. Shot on location, Sat 9 Dec 17:00 EVENT One Hour Intro/ Bruno Ganz: Screen Chameleon the film drips authenticity in its creation of a dizzyingly Sat 9 Dec 18:20 Knife in the Head (15) complex world within which Ganz plays an experienced ‘seen-it-all’ journalist who has to face up to a series of Sun 10 Dec 16:00 EVENT Circle of Deceit (18) + Post-screening discussion moral questions when he arrives in Beirut to report on a Tue 12 Dec 18:15 Operation Ogre (CTBA) political situation that is lurching into war. Circle of Deceit, 1981 14 15 PRICES: Off Peak (before 17:00) Full £7 / Member Full £5.50 Peak (from 17:00) Full £9 / Member Full £7 £5 student advance tickets available (limited capacity). Concessions and discounts are available, please see website for further details. OFFERS: Season Multi Deal: Book 2 or more individual films in the States of Danger and Deceit programme and save…

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