Figli di Annibale (1998)

User Rating:

6.2/10   

Director:

Davide Ferrario

Writers:

Davide Ferrario (story) and
Diego Abatantuono (story) ...

Release Date:

13 March 1998 (Italy)

Genre:

Comedy

Plot:

A bungling bank robber, an uncooperative hostage with a secret, a gay policeman and a situation which...

Plot Keywords:

Bank | Policeman | Hostage | Bank Robber | Gay

Cast

Diego Abatantuono	...	Tommaso
Silvio Orlando	...	Domenico
Valentina Cervi	...	Rita
Flavio Insinna	...	Orfeo
Ugo Conti	...	Ermes
Elena Giove	...	Carmela
Gianluca Gobbi	...	App. Formelti
Enrico Salimbeni	...	App. Zamboni
Pietro Ghislandi	...	Bank clerk
Caterina Sylos Labini	...	Private policewoman
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Luca Michele Cirasola	...	Poliziotto

Also Known As:

Children of Hannibal (USA)
I precipitati (Italy) (working title)

Runtime:

90 min

Country:

Italy

Language:

Italian

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Certification:

Italy:T

Filming Locations:

Apulia, Italy

Company:

Colorado Film Production

Goofs:

Boom mic visible: When Tommaso and Domenico first enter Tommaso's house, the boom mic is reflected in the glass of the front doors as they walk away from them.

Soundtrack:

Figli di Annibale

Promising Beginning, Disappointing 2nd Half

This movie had us in stitches for the first half, and I thought, briefly, that it could possibly even aspire to be in the same league as Dino Risi's "Il Sorpasso", the greatest Italian road movie (and much more) of all time. Diego Abatantuono showed many of the qualities of Vittorio Gassman when the latter played the role of "Bruno" in the Risi film, and Silvio Orlando played the Trintignant character to very good effect(allowing for the obvious shifts in social class). But the film sputtered as soon as Valentina Cervi (daughter to Abatantuono's character) was brought back into the story (a forcibly re-introduced pretty face--as if an Italian audience can't make it through a movie without a beautiful female on the screen half of the time--or maybe she was brought back to counterbalance the "gay" theme that had been introduced). Before Cervi's reappearance there had been real magic in the interaction between Abatantuono and Orlando.