The Mattei Affair

The Mattei Affair

110 mins | Drama, Crime, Thriller, History | Jan. 26, 1972

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.

The Mattei Affair

110 mins | Drama, Crime, Thriller, History | Jan. 26, 1972

The Mattei Affair
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.
IMDb rating 7.6
Producers Verona Produzione, Vides Cinematografica
Original title Il caso Mattei
Directors Marco Guarnaschelli, Franca Invernizzi, Francesco Rosi
Writers Alessandro Previdi, Fulvio Bellini, Tito De Stefano, Nerio Minuzzo, Francesco Rosi, Tonino Guerra

Cast

Gian Maria Volonté

as Enrico Mattei

Luigi Squarzina

as liberal journalist

Peter Baldwin

as William McHale

Renato Romano

as journalist

Franco Graziosi

as Minister of State partecipations

Gianfranco Ombuen

as Mr. Ferrari, the engineer

Elio Jotta

as head of the Committee of Inquiry

Luciano Colitti

as Irnerio Bertuzzi

Edda Ferronao

as Mrs. Mattei

Accursio Di Leo

as Sicilian character

Terenzio Cordova

as police officer

Giuseppe Lo Presti

as Sicilian character

Camillo Milli

as TV journalist

Aldo Barberito

as Mauro De Mauro

Jean Rougeul

as French journalist

Dario Michaelis

as Carabinieri officer

Vittorio Fanfoni

as journalist

Nino Drago

as journalist

Néstor Garay

as journalist

Felice Fulchignoni

as Sicilian character

Sennuccio Benelli

as Self / journalist

Furio Colombo

as Mattei's assistant

Ugo Zatterin

as Self / journalist

Blaise Morrissey

as American oilman

Gianni Farneti

as Self / journalist

Alessio Baume

as "Time" journalist

Umberto D'Arrò

as Self / journalist

Salvo Licata

as Self / journalist

Giuseppe Rosselli

as Self / journalist

Ferruccio Parri

as Self (archival footage)

Francesco Rosi

as Self (uncredited)

Andrea Artoni

as Self / flight assistant (uncredited)

Edy Biagetti

as Mattei's bodyguard (uncredited)