SYNOPSIS: 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.
| Edoardo Nottola | Rod Steiger |
| De Angelis | Salvo Randone |
| Maglione | Guido Alberti |
| Balsamo | Angelo D'Alessandro |
| De Vita | Carlo Fermariello |
| Friends of Nottola | Marcello Cannavale |
| Alberto Canocchia | |
| Gaetano Grimaldi Filioli | |
| Prosecutor | Terenzio Cordova |
| President of inquiry committee | Dante Di Pinto |
| Mayor | Vincenzo Metafora |
| Director | Francesco Rosi |
| Producer | Lionello Santi |
| Story | Francesco Rosi and Raffaele La Capria |
| Screenplay | Francesco Rosi, Raffaele La Capria, Enzo Provenzale and Enzo Forcella |
| Production manager | Enzo Provenzale |
| Cinematography | Gianni Di Venanzo |
| Music | Piero Piccioni |
| Editing | Mario Serandrei |
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By October 23, 2006
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