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Property Is No Longer a Theft ()

La proprietà non è più un furto (original title)
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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. He starts by targeting a popular former client, a butcher. But being a neurotic Marxist has its drawbacks.

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The Butcher
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Total
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Anita
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Alessandro 'Albertone' Marzo
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Brigadier Pirelli
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Bank Director
Cecilia Polizzi ...
Mafalda
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Bank Clerk
Ada Pometti ...
Butcher's Housemaid
Pierluigi D'Orazio ...
Albertone's Thief
Luigi Antonio Guerra ...
Protester (as Luigi Guerra)
Gino Milli ...
Zaganè
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Paco (as Luigi Proietti)
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Total's Father
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Sisto Brunetti ...
Man at Funeral (uncredited)
Eros Buttaglieri ...
Butcher's Neighbor (uncredited)
Mara Carisi ...
Bank Customer (uncredited)
Mario Castaldi ...
Man at Reunion (uncredited)
Franz Colangeli ...
Bank Customer (uncredited)
Augusta Di Vincenzi ...
Woman at Reunion (uncredited)
Elena Fabrizi ...
Butchery Client (uncredited)
Iolanda Fortini ...
Butchery Client (uncredited)
Ferruccio Fregonese ...
Antitheft Demonstration Observer (uncredited)
Annunziata Fuciarelli ...
Woman at Police Station (uncredited)
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Bocio (uncredited)
Alfonso Giganti ...
Policeman (uncredited)
Claudio Mancini ...
Bank Robber (uncredited)
Anna Manduchi ...
Antitheft Demonstration Observer (uncredited)
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Bank Customer (uncredited)
Giuseppina Quinn ...
Bank Customer (uncredited)
Maurizio Streccioni ...
Bank Customer (uncredited)
Milena Zampana ...
Bank Customer (uncredited)
Isabella Zanussi ...
Antitheft Demonstration Observer (uncredited)

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Elio Petri

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Elio Petri ... (story and screenplay) &
Ugo Pirro ... (story and screenplay)

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Franco Committeri ... producer (uncredited)
Claudio Mancini ... producer

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Ennio Morricone

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Luigi Kuveiller

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Ruggero Mastroianni

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Gasperina Marani ... assistant editor

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Gianni Polidori

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Massimo Tavazzi

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Gianni Polidori

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Grazia De Rossi ... hair stylist
Pierantonio Mecacci ... makeup artist (as P. Antonio Mecacci)

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Stefano Pegoraro ... unit manager
Ugo Valenti ... unit manager

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Rinaldo Ricci ... assistant director

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Gianni Fiumi ... props
Sergio Vacchi ... paintings
Lorenzo Vespignani ... painting: opening titles (as Renzo Vespignani)

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Gilles Barberis ... audio restorer
Mario Bramonti ... sound
Alberto Tinebra ... sound mixer

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Antonio Annunziata ... first assistant camera (as Nino Annunziata)
Sergio Coletta ... gaffer
Sergio Emidi ... key grip
Maurizio Mancini ... second assistant camera
Ubaldo Terzano ... camera operator
Mario Tursi ... still photographer

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Bruno Nicolai ... conductor

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Vanda Tuzzi ... continuity (as Wanda Tuzi)

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Franco Committeri ... presenter
Vasco Mafera ... production secretary
Mario Maldesi ... dubbing director
Crew believed to be complete

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Plot Summary

Total, a young bank cashier, has been wondering for some time if his life, with its grey, dismal prospects, is worth living. He is aware of the illicit careers and rise to riches of many of his clients. He decide to start a new life: new clothes, new cars, new women. His "new look" begins discreetly with a few small robberies in supermarkets, progressing to more important fraud.

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Also Known As
  • La propriété, c'est plus le vol (France)
  • Property Is No Longer a Theft (United States)
  • Property Is No Longer a Theft (World-wide, English title)
  • El amargo deseo de la propiedad (Spain)
  • A Propriedade não é mais um Roubo (Brazil)
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  • 126 min
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Trivia Last part of the "Trilogy of Neurosis" also including Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion (1970) and The Working Class Goes to Heaven (1971). See more »
Movie Connections Referenced in Screaming Queen!: Daria Nicolodi Remembers Tenebrae (2011). See more »

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