Rod Steiger
Edoardo Nottola
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A ruthless Neapolitan land developer and elected city councilman, Edoardo Nottola (Rod Steiger), manages to use political power to make personal profit in a large-scale suburban real-estate deal.
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.
- (3.3K)
- Drama
- Francesco Rosi
- 1963-11-07
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.
- Edoardo Nottola
In the city council chambers, De Vita (Carlo Fermariello), the leader of the left, calls for an investigation into the accident but is blocked. So, he takes a different tack by investigating the...
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- Francesco Rosi
- Drama
- Rod Steiger
Set in 1963 Naples, Hands Over the City is a serious depiction of the corruption, nepotism and social issues of post war reconstruction. Italy in the early 1960s was barely a developed nation. Like most European participants of World War Two, Italy was left devastated by six years of conflict ending in 1945.
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.
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Oct 23, 2006 · Released in 1963, Hands over the City was the second great film in Rosi's political series. It fully confirmed Rosi's stature, winning him the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival, while showing his newfound audience how masterfully he could work in the place he knew best, his native Naples.
