Romanzo Criminale
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| Romanzo Criminale | |
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| Directed by | Michele Placido |
| Written by | Giancarlo De Cataldo |
| Starring | Kim Rossi Stuart, Anna Mouglalis, Pierfrancesco Favino, Claudio Santamaria, Stefano Accorsi and Jasmine Trinca |
| Music by | Paolo Buonvino |
| Cinematography | Luca Bigazzi |
| Editing by | Esmeralda Calabria |
| Distributed by | Italy - Warner Bros,
Icon Film - UK, TF1 International - worldwide |
| Release date(s) | Italy 30 September 2005,
Germany 15 February 2006, France March 2006, Mexico 21 April UK November 3 2006 |
| Running time | 152 mins |
| Country | Italy |
| Language | Italian |
| IMDb profile | |
Romanzo Criminale (Crime Novel) is an Italian-language film released in 2005, directed by Michele Placido, a criminal drama, it was highly acclaimed and won 15 awards. It is based on Giancarlo De Cataldo's 2002 novel, which is in turn inspired by the Banda della Magliana true story. The Magliana gang was one of the most powerful Italian criminal associations, dominating Rome's drug, gambling and other kinds of crime activities from the early 1970s to 1992 (death of Enrico De Pedis). The gang's affiliates start their career kidnapping rich people, drug dealing (hashis, cocain, heroin etc.) from the 70s they started working with the Italian secret service, Nazis, terrorists, the Sicilian Cosa Nostra, Camorra and many more. Some members of the band are still alive, as inmates of Italian prison, or justice collaborators.(Massimo Carminati, Maurizio Abbatino)
[edit] Plot
In 1960s Rome, four young delinquents, nicknamed Ice, Lebanese, Dandy and Grand steal a car. Crashing through a police road block, the driver, Grand is crushed by the steering column. Back at their hideout, a small disused caravan near a beach, they are discovered by the police. Ice, Lebanese and Dandy run away, but are captured. Grand, who is mortally wounded, dies in the caravan. Roll opening credits. Some years later, in the 1970s, Ice is released from prison, and met by Lebanese, who tells him he has come up with a plan to kidnap and hold to ransom Baron Rossellini, a wealthy aristocrat whom Lebanese's parents worked for. He has formed a gang with Dandy - they are Black, Bright Eye, Ricotta, Bufalo, Rat and Ciro & Aldo Buffoni. After negotiating the ransom of 3 billion lire, whilst trying to get the Baron to pose for a proof of life, Lebanese shoots him. Nonetheless, they fake the proof of life, and get the 3 billion lire. However, the local Police Commissioner Nicola Scialoja manages to record the serial numbers of the ransom money before the gang receive it, setting out to capture the gang. As the gang divide up the money, Lebanese proposes to split split 500 million lire between them, and use the remaining 2.5 billion to build a foothold in the criminal underworld of Rome, starting with drug dealing. However, the drugs racket is owned by the dealer Terrible, and so the gang wipe his gang out apart from Gemito, who Lebanese bribes to help them. After his home is raided and his body guards killed, Terrible wakes to find Ice, Lebanese and Dandy in his bedroom. Cornered, he reluctantly agrees to let give control of the racket to the gang.
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