Hands Over the City (1963)

Original title

Le mani sulla città

Directed by

Francesco Rosi

Genre

drama film

Country

France, Italy

Runtime

1h 45m

Rated

NR

Rating

7.4 of 10 from 156 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A corrupt real estate developer and city councilman uses political power to displace poor residents for profit. An idealist socialist politician tries to stop him. The film exposes the links between business and government in urban development.

politically chargedintensegrittycynicalurgentunsettlingbleakdeliberate

What happens

Hands over the City (Italian: Le mani sulla città) is a 1963 Italian drama film co-written and directed by Francesco Rosi. It follows the real estate agent and politician Eduardo Nottola (Rod Steiger), who uses his power as a city councilman member to lobby for the displacement of the impoverished Naples population, and his personal fight against the idealist socialist politician De Vita (Carlo Fermariello). The film had its world premiere at the main competition of the 24th Venice International Film Festival, where it won the Golden Lion, the festival's top prize. 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." (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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