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Operation St. Peter's (1967)

Operation St. Peter's poster
Original title
Operazione San Pietro
Directed by
Lucio Fulci
Genre
comedy film, heist film
Country
France, Italy
Runtime
1h 34m
Rated
12
Rating
6.3 of 10 from 19 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A group of characters plan a heist targeting a church in Rome. The film follows their comedic attempts to pull off the job.

lightheartedcomedicplayfulcaper-likeupbeatfar-fetchedentertaining

What happens

Operation St. Peter's, (Italian: Operazione San Pietro) is a 1967 comedy film directed by Lucio Fulci. The film is a sort of unofficial sequel to Treasure of San Gennaro, a heist-comedy film that Dino Risi had filmed the previous year. The film was co-produced by France, where it was released as Au diable les anges ('To Hell With the Angels'), and West Germany, where it was released as Die Abenteuer des Kardinal Braun ('The Adventure of Cardinal Brown'). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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