The Murri Affair (Italian: Fatti di gente perbene, lit. 'Facts of Decent People'; French: La grande bourgeoise, lit. 'The Great Bourgeois') is a 1974 historical drama film directed by Mauro Bolognini and starring Giancarlo Giannini and Catherine Deneuve. It is based on real events of a notorious 1902 murder trial. It was awarded with a David di Donatello for Best Film.
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Plot
Linda Murri, the daughter of a liberal wealthy family, was raised under lenient sexual mores, and now is suffocating in a marriage to a conservative doctor. Her brother, an intense young man who wastes his time on whores and gambling, can no longer watch his sister suffer. He plots the murder of her husband, and through the crime lays bare a society feeding on unspeakable passions and illicit actions.
Cast
Giancarlo Giannini as Tullio Murri
Catherine Deneuve as Linda Murri
Fernando Rey as Augusto Murri
Tina Aumont as Rosa Bonetti
Rina Morelli as Giannina Murri
Ettore Manni as Dr. Carlo Secchi
Paolo Bonacelli as Francesco Bonmartini
Giacomo Rossi Stuart as Riccardo Murri
Laura Betti as Tisa Borghi
Corrado Pani as Pio Naldi
Marcel Bozzuffi as Inspector Stanzani
Lino Troisi
Reception
Film Critic John Simon wrote "La Grande Bourgeoise is, like most of the films of Mauro Bolognini, failed art, the sort of thing that leaves a bad taste in the soul".