Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion Tu, 15th, 2.15pm

An anti fascist polemic and police thriller about a fanatical police chief who commits murder to demonstrate his own inviolability before the law.

Director, Elio Petri, exposes the rituals of police procedure and the fascist behaviour of the police department. He takes as his text a sentence from Kafka's The Trial: "Whatever impression he may give us, he is a servant of the Law, and therefore he belongs to the Law and is beyond human judgment."

A film with a theme that is becoming more and more relevant to New Zealand by the minute.