Hands Over The City
– Rod Steiger is ferocious as a scheming land developer in Francesco Rosi’s Hands over the City, a b..
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.
07 Nov 1963
Italian
Francesco Rosi
Francesco Rosi (idea), Raffaele La Capria (idea), Francesco Rosi (screenplay), Raffaele La Capria (screenplay), Enzo Provenzale (screenplay), Enzo Forcella (screenplay)
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.
2 wins & 5 nominations.
Criterion Collection