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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
105 minutes. Country. Italy. Languages. Italian. Neapolitan. 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. [1] In 2008, the film was included on the Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage 's 100 Italian films to be saved, a ...
- Lionello Santi
- Piero Piccioni
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 landscape moves breathlessly from a cataclysmic ...
- Edoardo Nottola
Hands Over the City 1962 1h 45m Drama List Reviews 87% Audience Score 250+ Ratings An entrepreneur secures land for a construction project through political complicity.
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- Francesco Rosi
- Drama
- Rod Steiger
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.
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.
Oct 23, 2006 · Hands over the City: Confidential Reports—The Investigative Thrillers of Francesco Rosi | Current | The Criterion Collection. By Stuart Klawans. Essays — Oct 23, 2006.
