1963 | Rod Steiger is ferocious as a scheming land developer in Francesco Rosi's Hands over the City, a blistering work of social realism and the winner of the 1963 Venice Film Festival Golden Lion. This expose of the politically driven real-estate speculation that has devastated Naples's civilian landscape moves breathlessly from a cataclysmic building collapse to the backroom negotiations of civic leaders vying for power in a city council election, laying bare the inner workings of corruption with passion and outrage. | Fiction

Le mani sulla città (Hands over the City)

  • Italian 100 mins
  • Director | Francesco Rosi
  • Writer | Francesco Rosi, Raffaele La Capria, Enzo Provenzale, Enzo Forcella
  • Producer | Lionello Santi

STATUS: Released

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Rod Steiger is ferocious as a scheming land developer in Francesco Rosi's Hands over the City, a blistering work of social realism and the winner of the 1963 Venice Film Festival Golden Lion. This expose of the politically driven real-estate speculation that has devastated Naples's civilian landscape moves breathlessly from a cataclysmic building collapse to the backroom negotiations of civic leaders vying for power in a city council election, laying bare the inner workings of corruption with passion and outrage.

Corruption Politics RealEstate Power Exploitation
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The Criterion Collection
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