Illustrious Corpses

Illustrious Corpses
Illustrious Corpses
	Italian film poster
Directed by	Francesco Rosi
Screenplay by	Tonino Guerra; Lino Jannuzzi; Francesco Rosi
Based on	Equal Danger; by Leonardo Sciascia
Produced by	Alberto Grimaldi
Starring	Lino Ventura; Tino Carraro; Marcel Bozzuffi; Paolo Bonacelli; Alain Cuny; Luigi Pistilli; Renato Salvatori; Tina Aumont; Fernando Rey; Max von Sydow; Charles Vanel;
Cinematography	Pasqualino De Santis
Edited by	Ruggero Mastroianni
Music by	Piero Piccioni
Production; companies	Produzioni Europee Associati; Les Productions Artistes Associés
Distributed by	United Artists Europa
Release dates	12 February 1976 (Italy); 26 May 1976 (France);
Running time	127 minutes
Countries	Italy; France
Language	Italian

Illustrious Corpses (Italian: Cadaveri eccellenti, French: Cadavres exquis) is a 1976 Italian-French thriller film directed by Francesco Rosi and starring Lino Ventura, based on the novel Equal Danger by Leonardo Sciascia (1971).

In 2008, the film was included in the Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage's 100 Italian films to be saved, a list of 100 films that "have changed the collective memory of the country between 1942 and 1978."