Angels of Evil
2010 · Movie · 125 min. · Italy
The life, the crimes, the arrests and the prison break of Renato Vallanzasca and his group is a cinematic story that also gives a broader picture of our recent history. Milan, the seventies. The underworld is dominated by the unchallenged power of Francis Turatello, nicknamed “Faccia d’angelo” (Angel Face) when Vallanzasca’s gang arrive on the scene. Having begun his criminal career at an early age, he is now the leader of a gang made up of his childhood friends, drug addicts and juvenile delinquents who have progressed from robbery to one murder after another. The cash flows and the gang throw themselves into highlife. Renato, in the meantime, has met Consuelo, a beautiful and self-assured girl from the south who finds herself with him at the time of his first arrest through to his prison break from San Vittore four and a half years later. But Vallanzasca’s outlaw days are coming to an end: the killing of two policemen in the tollbooth at Dalmine changes the destiny of the crime boss who is arrested shortly afterwards. His prison sentence at Rebibbia offers him the chance to clear things up with his sworn enemy Turatello. The following years are punctuated by transfers from one prison to another, by trials and by daring escapes. After the umpteenth escape he runs to Antonella, a childhood friend who has stayed close to him all his life. But once more Vallanzasca’s life as a fugitive comes to an end one summer evening.
Direction Michele Placido
Cast Kim Rossi Stuart · Filippo Timi · Moritz Bleibtreu · Valeria Solarino · Paz Vega · Francesco Scianna · Toni Pandolfo · Gaetano Bruno · Nicola Acunzo · Stefano Chiodaroli · Lino Guanciale · Federica Vincenti · Paolo Mazzarelli · Monica Dean · Gerardo Amato · Giorgio Careccia · Riccardo Cicogna · Teresa Acerbis · Luciano Curreli · Stefano Fregni · Federico Pacifici
Soundtrack Negramaro
Screenplay Michele Placido · Kim Rossi Stuart · Andrea Purgatori · Toni Trupia · Andrea Leanza · Renato Vallanzasca · Carlo Bonini · Angelo Pasquini
Cinematography Arnaldo Catanari
Original title Vallanzasca - Gli angeli del male
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