A Quiet Place in the Country (Italian: Un tranquillo posto di campagna, French: Un coin tranquille à la campagne) is a 1968 giallo[2] thriller film directed by Elio Petri, and starring Franco Nero and Vanessa Redgrave.

Based on the short story "The Beckoning Fair One" by Oliver Onions, its plot follows an artist who relocates to a rural villa with his girlfriend, where he begins to experience increasingly terrifying, apparently supernatural events.

Flavia arranges for him to stay in a large mansion, but Leonardo finds himself obsessively drawn to a sprawling, dilapidated abandoned villa nearby.

Leonardo breaks into the gated property one afternoon and meets Attilio, its longtime caretaker, who tells him the owners want to sell it.

The following morning, while purchasing goods, Leonardo is informed by a shopkeeper that a young countess, Wanda, died on the property during an airstrike in World War II, in which she was shot to death.

Leonardo speaks with the local butcher, who confesses he had a longstanding affair with Wanda, and also informs him she carried on dalliances with Attilio and numerous other men.

At dawn, Leonardo has a series of bizarre visions: A group of soldiers pass through the property with Attilio, who admits Wanda survived the air attack and that he shot her to death, making it look like she was killed by the plane.

A Quiet Place in the Country was a story originally written by Tonino Guerra and Elio Petri in 1962 based on "The Beckoning Fair One" by George Oliver Onions.

[6] On 9 August 2011, MGM Home Entertainment released A Quiet Place in the Country on DVD as part of their Limited Edition Collection.

[8] From contemporary reviews, Robert Hawkins of Variety proclaimed that "If there is such a thing as an intellectual horror pic, this official Italian Berlin Fest entry comes close.

"[9] Charles Champlin of the Los Angeles Times praised the film as "well done," and compared the screenplay to the madness-themed works of Edgar Allan Poe.

Writer/director Elio Petri creates a completely unstable environment for his tale of personal madness, artistic chaos, and supernatural violence.

"[7] Steve Langton from The Spinning Image awarded the film 8/10 stars, stating, "Granted, A Quiet Place In The Country does occasionally threaten to slide into over-indulgence, but one of its main strengths may be that Petri was either unable or unwilling to play by the rules.