Hands over the City

Hands over the City (Le mani sulla città) is a 1963 drama film directed by Francesco Rosi. It is a story of political corruption in post-World War II Italy. In 2008, the film was included on the Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage's 100 Italian films to be saved, a list of 100 films that "have changed the collective memory of the country between 1942 and 1978."

Plot
A ruthless Neapolitan land developer and elected city councilman, Edoardo Nottola (Rod Steiger), manages to use political power to make personal profit in a large-scale suburban real-estate deal. However, after the collapse of a residential building next to a construction site, the manager of which is his son, the communist councilman De Vita (Carlo Fermariello) initiates an inquiry into Nottola's connection to the accident.

Cast

 * Rod Steiger as entrepreneur Edoardo Nottola
 * Salvo Randone as De Angeli
 * Guido Alberti as Maglione
 * Angelo D'Alessandro as Balsamo
 * Carlo Fermariello as De Vita
 * Marcello Cannavale as Nottola's friend
 * Alberto Canocchia as Nottola's friend
 * Gaetano Grimaldi Filioli as Nottola's friend
 * Dante Di Pinto as the president at the commission of enquiry
 * Dany Paris as Maglione's lover
 * Alberto Amato as a counsellor
 * Franco Rigamonti as a counsellor
 * Terenzio Cordova as the inspector
 * Vincenzo Metafora as the mayor

Awards
The film won the Golden Lion award at the 1963 Venice Film Festival.