Hands over the City
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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 building collapse to the backroom negotiations of civic leaders vying for power in a city council election, laying bare the inner workings of corruption with passion and outrage.
Special Features
- New, restored high-definition digital transfer
- Neapolitan Diary (1992), Francesco Rosi's feature-length sequel to Hands over the City
- Interviews with Rosi, film critic Tullio Kezich, and filmmaker Jean-Pierre Gorin
- Discussion between Rosi, co-writer Raffaele La Capria, and film critic Michel Ciment
- New and improved English subtitle translation
- Plus: a new essay by film critic Stuart Klawans and a 2003 interview with Rosi
New cover by Danijel Zezelj
Special Features
- New, restored high-definition digital transfer
- Neapolitan Diary (1992), Francesco Rosi's feature-length sequel to Hands over the City
- Interviews with Rosi, film critic Tullio Kezich, and filmmaker Jean-Pierre Gorin
- Discussion between Rosi, co-writer Raffaele La Capria, and film critic Michel Ciment
- New and improved English subtitle translation
- Plus: a new essay by film critic Stuart Klawans and a 2003 interview with Rosi
New cover by Danijel Zezelj
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Cast
- Rod Steiger
- Edoardo Nottola
- Salvo Randone
- De Angelis
- Guido Alberti
- Maglione
- Angelo D'Alessandro
- Balsamo
- Carlo Fermariello
- De Vita
- Marcello Cannavale
- Friends of Nottola
- Alberto Canocchia
- Gaetano Grimaldi Filioli
- Terenzio Cordova
- Prosecutor
- Dante Di Pinto
- President of inquiry committee
- Vincenzo Metafora
- Mayor
Credits
- Director
- Francesco Rosi
- Producer
- Lionello Santi
- Story
- Francesco Rosi
- Story
- Raffaele La Capria
- Screenplay
- Francesco Rosi
- Screenplay
- Raffaele La Capria
- Screenplay
- Enzo Provenzale
- Screenplay
- Enzo Forcella
- Production manager
- Enzo Provenzale
- Cinematography
- Gianni Di Venanzo
- Music
- Piero Piccioni
- Editing
- Mario Serandrei
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