Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion [re-release] (2003): Ratings & Plot

Il Dottore, a recently promoted police inspector, moves through his city with an unshakeable faith in authority and an appetite for control that borders on fetish. He commits murder—killing his mistress—and then sets out to erase any trace of his involvement. What follows is not just a cover-up, but a deliberate performance: he insinuates himself into the very investigation meant to uncover the truth, planting clues and guiding his subordinate officers toward a sequence of other suspects. By redirecting attention to these individuals—the woman’s gay husband and a student radical leftist—he aims to demonstrate that the fault lies elsewhere, that the system can be steered to exonerate its most powerful agent, and that someone in his position can operate “above suspicion.”