Children of Hannibal (1998) Figli di Annibale (original title)

Director:

Davide Ferrario

Writers:

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

Awards:

1 nomination

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

Directed by
Davide Ferrario

Writing credits
Davide Ferrario		(story) and
Diego Abatantuono		(story) and
Sergio Rubini		(story)
Davide Ferrario		(writer) and
Diego Abatantuono		(writer)

Produced by
Maurizio Totti	....	producer

Original Music by
Almamegretta
Fabio Piazzalunga
Damiano Rota
Daniele Sepe

Cinematography by
Giovanni Cavallini

Film Editing by
Claudio Cormio
Luca Gasparini

Production Design by
Franca Bertagnolli

Costume Design by
Emanuela Pischedda

Makeup Department
Massimo Gattabrusi	....	hair stylist

Production Management
Ferdinando Bonifazi	....	unit manager
Stefano Dioguardi	....	unit production manager
Tonino Tacchia	....	organization

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Lorenzo Dalla Vedova	....	first assistant director

Sound Department
Tiziano Crotti	....	sound editor
Tiziano Crotti	....	sound

Camera and Electrical Department
Fabrizio Ancillai	....	camera operator
Raffaele Chianese	....	assistant camera
Chico de Luigi	....	still photographer
Massimiliano Trevis	....	camera operator
Massimiliano Zenga	....	clapper loader

Other crew
Paola Sangiovanni	....	script supervisor
Patrizia Wachter	....	press agent

Production Companies

• Colorado Film Production
• Mediaset
• Medusa Produzione
• Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali (MiBAC) (support)

Distributors

• Medusa Distribuzione
• TLA Releasing (USA) (video)

Also Known As:

"Figli di Annibale" - Italy (original 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.