Hands Over the City
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.
Genre: Drama
Director: Francesco Rosi
Actors: Alberto Conocchia, Angelo D'Alessandro, Carlo Fermariello, Dante Di Pinto, Gaetano Grimaldi Filioli, Guido Alberti, Marcello Cannavale, Rod Steiger, Salvo Randone, Terenzio Cordova
Country: Italy