Hands over the City

105 minutesCountryItalyLanguagesItalian
Neapolitan

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.^[1] In 2008, the film was included on the Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage's 100 Italian films to be saved, a list of 100 films that "have changed the collective memory of the country between 1942 and 1978."^[2]

Plot

A ruthless Neapolitan land developer and elected city councilman, Edoardo Nottola (Rod Steiger), manages to use political power to make personal profit in a large-scale suburban real-estate deal. However, after the collapse of a residential building next to a construction site, the manager of which is his son, the communist councilman De Vita (Carlo Fermariello) initiates an inquiry into Nottola's connection to the accident.

Cast

• Rod Steiger as entrepreneur Edoardo Nottola
• Salvo Randone as De Angeli
• Guido Alberti as Maglione
• Angelo D'Alessandro as Balsamo
• Carlo Fermariello as De Vita
• Marcello Cannavale as Nottola's friend
• Alberto Canocchia as Nottola's friend
• Gaetano Grimaldi Filioli as Nottola's friend
• Dante Di Pinto as the president at the commission of enquiry
• Dany Paris as Maglione's lover
• Alberto Amato as a counsellor
• Franco Rigamonti as a counsellor
• Terenzio Cordova as the inspector
• Vincenzo Metafora as the mayor

Awards

The film won the Golden Lion award at the 1963 Venice Film Festival.

References

External links

• Hands over the City at IMDb
• Hands over the City at AllMovie
• Hands over the City an essay by Stuart Klawans at the Criterion Collection