The Mattei Affair
(1972)
★ 7.5 IMDb · 121 votes
Year: 1972
Runtime: 116 мин
Country: Italy
Director: Francesco Rosi
Cast: Gian Maria Volonté, Luigi Squarzina, Peter Baldwin, Renato Romano, Franco Graziosi, Gianfranco Ombuen, Elio Jotta, Luciano Colitti, Edda Ferronao, Accursio Di Leo
Plot
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.