Radiance Films Selects Dec. 8 For The 4K Ultra HD Debut Of Director Elio Petri's A Quiet Place In The Country Re-Teaming Camelot's Vanessa Redgrave And Franco Nero

The first press about international film festival favorite Elio Petri’s newest film production surfaced in domestic newspapers in April of 1968 with details that he would be shooting his movie in Rome and that it would re-united Camelot co-stars Vanessa Redgrave (Guenevere) and Franco Nero (Lancelot).  

Petri got noticed by the critics with The 10th Victim in 1965, but it wasn't until 1970 that he became a darling of the film community with the release of Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion ... what caught the attention of the press this time around was Guenevere and Lancelot back together again.

The planted publicity piece teased that it would be “a tale of ghosts and horror” and that it would also feature Nero as a “neurotic and sex-obsessed painter,” with Redgrave as his “mistress.”   For any genre fan worth their salt a list of plot ingredients that include “horror,” “ghosts” and “sex-obsessed” is something to take notice of!!

The good news is you need to look no further than Dec. 8 (the street date) for Radiance Films’ new 4K Ultra HD restoration (from the original film negative) of Italian filmmaker Elio Petri’s ghostly sex-obsessed horror tale, A Quiet Place in the Country.  MVD Entertainment Group will be guiding the sales and distribution efforts of this newly minted 4K Ultra HD release.

The film opened in Italy in August of 1968.   In something of a bold move, it was then entered into competition at the Berlin International Film Festival during June of 1969.  Petri won the Jury Prize.  It is usually the other way around ... festival circuit first and then a theatrical run, but if A Quiet Place in the Country — with its super star billing — was going to get distribution stateside it needed to get noticed ... and it did!

A Quiet Place in the Country made its domestic theatrical debut at the 72nd Street Playhouse in New York City on Aug. 28, 1970.   Reviewer Ann Guarino, writing for the Daily News, described the film as “bizarre” and haunted by “erotic dreams.”  We won’t give away the plot … to discover the bizarre for yourself be sure to seek out Radiance Films’ 4K Ultra HD edition on Dec. 8 to discover what Franco Nero and Vanessa Redgrave are up to in a remote Italian villa.

Bonus goodies include scene-selected commentary with film critic Kat Ellinger, a vintage interview with Franco Nero, and video sessions with author Stephen Thrower (“Beyond Terror: The Films of Lucio Fulci,” “Murderous Passions:  The Delirious Cinema of Jesus Franco”) and make-up artist Pierantonio Mecacci.