Hands Over the City (1963)
"Le mani sulla città" (original title)

Director:

Francesco Rosi

Writers:

Francesco Rosi (idea), Raffaele La Capria (idea),

Stars:

Rod Steiger, Salvo Randone, Guido Alberti

1 win & 5 nominations.

Cast

Complete credited cast:
Rod Steiger	...	Edoardo Nottola
Salvo Randone	...	Professor De Angelis
Guido Alberti	...	Maglione
Marcello Cannavale	...	Friend of Nottola
Dante Di Pinto	...	President of Inquiry Committee
Alberto Conocchia	...	Friend of Nottola
Carlo Fermariello	...	De Vita
Terenzio Cordova	...	Prosecutor
Gaetano Grimaldi Filioli	...	Friend of Nottola
Angelo D'Alessandro	...	Balsamo
Vincenzo Metafora	...	Mayor
Dany París	...	Dany

Storyline

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Plot Keywords:

lie | photograph | telephone call | real estate | eviction | 

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Genres:

Drama

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Certificate:

Not Rated

Details

Country:

Italy France

Language:

Italian

Release Date:

9 October 1963 (Italy)

Also Known As:

Hands Over the City

Filming Locations:

Naples, Campania, Italy

Company Credits

Production Co:

Galatea Film, Societé Cinématographique Lyre

Technical Specs

Runtime:

105 min

Sound Mix:

Mono (Western Electric Sound System)

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

Italian censorship visa # 41137 delivered on 10-9-1963.

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Connections

Featured in Girlfriend in a Coma (2012)

User Reviews

Disagree with both previous comments

This film is not about any aspect of human activity which is particular to Italian life. It is about the prevalence of greed and corruption over the human being and society anywhere. In this sense its value is universal - not limited to Italy. One of its strong points is precisely that it is not focused on an individual family's drama. Such focus often moves in a very superficial way - it turns the universal problem into one family's problem (and if it could be solved everything would be fine). Take a movie like "Ace in the hole". An outstanding movie, one of the best of its kind and its time (maybe of all time) and a good example of the human-focused view. You empathise with the victim, you rebel against the man (KD) but otherwise this can still be the best of all possible worlds. Not so in any of the films of Rosi. Rosi, in this more than in any other of his films, puts the collective problem, as well as the collective responsibility so clearly and so strongly to the fore that I believe this to be, maybe, the best political film of its kind ever made.