Romanzo Criminale (2005)

Original title

Romanzo criminale

Directed by

Michele Placido

Genre

drama film

Country

Italy

Runtime

2h 32m

Rated

AL

Rating

7.2 of 10 from 695 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A group of street criminals in Rome rise to power by kidnapping, drug dealing, and forming alliances with secret services and mobsters. The film follows their criminal empire from the 1970s through the 1990s.

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What happens

Romanzo criminale (Italian pronunciation: [roˈmandzo krimiˈnaːle]; "Criminal Novel") is an Italian-language crime drama film released in 2005, directed by Michele Placido. It was highly acclaimed and won 15 awards. It is based on Giancarlo De Cataldo's 2002 novel, which is in turn inspired by the true story of the Banda della Magliana. The Magliana gang was one of the most powerful Italian criminal associations, dominating Rome's drug, gambling and other kinds of crime activities from the early 1970s until the death of Enrico De Pedis in 1992. The gang's affiliates started their career kidnapping rich people, drug dealing (hashish, cocaine, heroin, etc.). From the 1970s they started working with the Italian secret service, fascists, terrorists, the Sicilian Mafia, the Camorra, and many more. Some gang members are still alive, as inmates of an Italian prison, or justice collaborators. The film is something of a showcase for a number of Italy's leading young film and television actors, notably Favino, who won a Donatello award for his performance as the gangster Lebanese (Libano). In 2008 a spin-off TV series commenced broadcasting (Romanzo criminale – La serie). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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