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Plot. Total, a young bank cashier, is allergic to money and feels only contempt for his customers who in his eyes built their wealth on criminal or corrupt activities. After witnessing an armed robbery in his bank, he resigns from his job and turns to theft.
Oct 4, 1973 · Property Is No Longer a Theft: Directed by Elio Petri. With Ugo Tognazzi, Flavio Bucci, Daria Nicolodi, Mario Scaccia. A bank cashier who's allergic to banknotes quits his job after an armed robbery. He decides to start a new life--as a thief.
Apr 8, 2017 · The philosophical argument of materialism vs. theft gets an oddball thriller workout in Elio Petri’s flip, funny and challenging satire Property is No Longer a Theft.
In maestro, Elio Petri's final gripping instalment of his outstanding "trilogy of neurosis", the hugely respected, enviably versatile Italian director's stunning satire 'Property is No Longer a Theft' (1973) is a blackly funny, darkly sensual assault upon bourgeois sensibilities that uncomfortably feels more than a little relevant 40 years on ...
Mar 16, 2013 · So, paradoxically, and only slightly tongue–in-cheek, it turns out that property is no longer a theft because theft is the fundamental form of modern economic and social existence.
Property Is No Longer a Theft. Allergic to money, a clerk (Flavio Bucci) at a bank steals items from a wealthy butcher (Ugo Tognazzi).
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A poor bank clerk, actually allergic to money and disgusted by its pernicious impact on society, conducts a harassment campaign against a wealthy butcher, taking minor, unimportant objects but never money from him. Elio Petri directed the 1973 Italian comedy film Property Is No Longer a Theft.
