New on Blu-ray: THE CASE IS CLOSED, FORGET IT / L'ISTRUTTORIA E CHIUSA: DIMENTICHI (1971) Starring Franco Nero and Riccardo Cucciolla

The Case Is Closed Forget It 1971 New On Bluray

Product Description: Franco Nero (Django) stars as an architect thrown in jail for a misdemeanor 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 (The Day of the Owl) 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.

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Director: Damiano Damiani

Starring: Franco Nero, Georges Wilson, John Steiner, Riccardo Cucciolla, Turi Ferro, Corrado Solari,

Genre: Crime, Thriller

Runtime: 106 min

Rating: Not Rated

Language: Italian

Studio: Radiance Films

Home Video Release Date: June 23, 2026

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Codec: MPEG-4 AVC
Resolution: 1080p
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Region: Region A/1

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Blu-ray: English SDH, English

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2K restoration of the film from the original negative presented with Italian and, for the first time, English audio options
2K restoration of the film from the original negative presented with Italian and, for the first time, English audio options
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 Damiani Damiani by critic Rachael Nisbet (2023, 35 mins)
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New and improved optional English subtitles for Italian audio and English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing for English audio