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Police Chief Pepe

1969 film by Ettore Scola

Manuscripts, fine bindings, an engraving plate and preserved performance ephemera
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 4, 2026
Entity authorityQ3221644 ↗
Source-derived summary

Il Commissario Pepe or Police Chief Pepe is a 1969 Italian comedy – drama film directed by Ettore Scola.

It is based on a Ugo Facco De La Garda's novel.

Filmed in Vicenza, the city is never mentioned.

Awards

Ugo Tognazzi was named Best Actor at Mar del Plata Film Festival.

Plot

Antonio Pepe is the Chief Police Inspector of a provincial small city in North of Italy. He is forced to investigate the sexual life of the citizens, even to the local high society members.

Editorial summary

“Police Chief Pepe” enters the record as 1969 film by Ettore Scola. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Police, Chief and Pepe can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA useful identification and reception guide that helps separate the work itself from editions, performances, ownership and later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1969—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1969-01-01. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Police, Chief and Pepe.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Police Chief Pepe” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Police, Chief and Pepe provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Attribution, date and provenance are strongest when supported by the original work, a catalogue record and documented transmission. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 4, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q3221644. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1969.

Critical limits

Titles can refer to several editions, objects or performances, making precise identification essential before interpretation. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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This entry incorporates text from “Police Chief Pepe” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.