Hands Over the City
1963·Italy·105 min.
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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.
DirectorFrancesco Rosi
MusicPiero Piccioni
CinematographyGianni Di Venanzo
CastRod Steiger·Salvo Randone·Guido Alberti·Marcello Cannavale·Angelo D'Alessandro·Carlo Fermariello·Dante Di Pinto·Alberto Conocchia·Terenzio Cordova
Original titleLe mani sulla città