Rod Steiger
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Hands Over the City: Directed by Francesco Rosi. With Rod Steiger, Salvo Randone, Guido Alberti, Marcello Cannavale. Prior to a city council election, the collapse of a building leaves a land developer and his political backers defending themselves against a scandal.
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- Drama
- Francesco Rosi
- 1963-11-07
Hands over the City (Italian: Le mani sulla città) is a 1963 drama film directed by Francesco Rosi.It is a story of political corruption in post-World War II Italy.In 2008, the film was included on 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."
Hands Over the City is a powerful film that urges us to be cognizant by filming shady dealings in opulent rooms, the black and white cinematography acting like a stark x-ray of the ugly interior ...
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- Francesco Rosi
- Drama
- Rod Steiger
Music. Piero Piccioni. Editing. Mario Serandrei. Rod Steiger is ferocious as a scheming land developer in Francesco Rosi's Hands over the City, a blistering work of social realism and the winner of the 1963 Venice Film Festival Golden Lion. This expose of the politically driven real-estate speculation that has devastated Naples's civilian ...
- Edoardo Nottola
Hands Over the City is a fictitious but equally serious investigation of corruption in Naples, centered on the cozy relationship between public officials and a private real estate developer. As soon as men with power consider city projects involving great sums of money, the commitment to serving the public vanishes in the face of self-interest.
Oct 23, 2006 · Nowhere is this combination more outlandishly theatrical, yet absolutely authentic, than in Hands over the City, where actual members of the Naples City Council, playing themselves, in their own chamber, lift up their arms in protest to cry, Our hands are clean!—a bit of acting that they must have performed twice, so that Rosi could film it ...
Hands over the City. Directed by Francesco Rosi • 1963 • Italy. Starring Rod Steiger, Salvo Randone, Guido Alberti. Rod Steiger is ferocious as a scheming land developer in Francesco Rosi’s HANDS OVER THE CITY, a blistering work of social realism and the winner of the 1963 Venice Film Festival Golden Lion. This expose of the politically ...
