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Hands over the City (Italian: Le mani sulla città) is a 1963 drama film directed by Francesco Rosi. It is a story of political corruption in post-World War II Italy.
Hands Over the City: Directed by Francesco Rosi. With Rod Steiger, Salvo Randone, Guido Alberti, Marcello Cannavale. Prior to a city council election, the collapse of a building leaves a land developer and his political backers defending themselves against a scandal.
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- Drama
- Francesco Rosi
- 1963-11-07
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.
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Oct 14, 2006 · Hands Over the City. An entrepreneur secures land for a construction project through political complicity.
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- Francesco Rosi
- Drama
- Rod Steiger
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 ...
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.
Hands Over the City is a fictitious but equally serious investigation of corruption in Naples, centered on the cozy relationship between public officials and a private real estate developer. As soon as men with power consider city projects involving great sums of money, the commitment to serving the public vanishes in the face of self-interest.
