The Case is Closed: Forget It

Franco Nero (Django) stars as an architect thrown in jail for a misdemeanour in The Case is Closed: Forget It. Inside, he sees the grim reality of life behind bars, faced with corrupt guards and a prison yard ruled by the mafia. Damiano Damiani (A Bullet for the General) continues his exploration of mafia stories with this gritty prison drama. Nero gives a sympathetic performance as the honest man, while support is given by noted character actors including Riccardo Cucciola (Rabid Dogs) as another innocent and John Steiner (Tenebrae) as a psychotic killer. Alongside Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion and Damiani’s own Confessions of a Police Captain, this exploration of authority and corruption was as critical as the era’s finest work and ranks alongside the best Italian genre films of the 1970s.

SPECIAL FEATURES

• 2K restoration of the film from the original negative presented with Italian and, for the first time, English audio options
• Original uncompressed mono PCM audio
• New interview with star Franco Nero (2022, 14 mins)
• Archival documentary on the making of the film featuring actor Corrado Solari, assistant director Enrique Bergier and editor Antonio Siciliano (2015, 28 mins)
• Italy’s Cinematic Civil Conscience: An Examination of the Life and Works of Damiano Damiani - A visual essay on the career of the director by critic Rachael Nisbet (2023, 35 mins)
• Trailer
• New and improved optional English subtitles for Italian audio and English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing for English audio

Year: 1971
Cert: 15
Format: Blu-ray
Region: AB
RAD015BD
EAN: 5060974680290
Release date: 23/09/23