The Mattei Affair (Italian: Il Caso Mattei) is a 1972 Italian drama film directed by Francesco Rosi. It depicts the life and mysterious death of Enrico Mattei, an Italian businessman who in the aftermath of World War II managed to avoid the sale of the nascent Italian oil and hydrocarbon industry to US companies and developed them in the Eni, a state-owned oil company which rivaled the "Seven Sisters" for oil and gas deals in Northern African and Middle Eastern countries.
Directed by Francesco Rosi
Screenplay by Francesco Rosi
Tonino Guerra
Nerio Minuzzo
Tito Di Stefano
Story by Francesco Rosi
Tonino Guerra
Produced by Franco Cristaldi
Starring Gian Maria Volonté
Cinematography Pasqualino De Santis
Edited by Ruggero Mastroianni
Music by Piero Piccioni
Gian Maria Volonté - Enrico Mattei
Luigi Squarzina - Journalist
Furio Colombo - assistant
Gianfranco Ombuen - Ing. Ferrari
Edda Ferronao - Mrs. Mattei
Accursio Di Leo - Sicilian important man
#1
Giuseppe Lo Presti - Sicilian important man
#2
Aldo Barberito - Journalist Mauro De Mauro
Dario Michaelis - Carabinieri official
Peter Baldwin - McHale (journalist)
Franco Graziosi - Minister
Elio Jotta - Head of commission
Luciano Colitti - Bertuzzi
Terenzio Cordova - Police official
Camillo Milli - Change teller
Jean Rougeul - American official
Francesco Rosi - himself