Romanzo Criminale

Original title: Romanzo criminale

2005
2h 32m

IMDb RATING

7.2/10

9.8K

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Gangster True Crime Crime Drama

Set in the 1970s, it's the story of three lifelong friends who take control of organized crime in Rome.Set in the 1970s, it's the story of three lifelong friends who take control of organized crime in Rome.Set in the 1970s, it's the story of three lifelong friends who take control of organized crime in Rome.

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IMDb RATING

7.2/10

9.8K

YOUR RATING

See production info at IMDbPro

Awards
- 32 wins & 25 nominations

Trivia
Director Michele Placido wanted Paz Vega to play Patrizia but she could not take on the role because of scheduling conflicts. Anna Mouglalis was cast instead.

Goofs
The section of Bologna Central Station that is shown when the bomb explodes is the wrong part of the building. The waiting room, where the real bomb exploded is on the left side of the main entrance, this is actually part of the ticket hall which remained mostly undamaged during the explosion.

Quotes
Commissario Scialoja: Here is my letter of resignation
[...]
Commissario Scialoja: . In the future, we people like me will no longer be needed, because there will be no democracy to save, only private interests. Struggles for more power, more money.

Alternate versions
The extended version of the movie features two new sequences, including some archival footage with Silvio Berlusconi. The scene is omitted in the version aired by Italian network Canale 5, owned by Berlusconi.

Connections
Featured in Timeshift: Italian Noir: The Story of Italian Crime Fiction (2010)

Soundtracks
I heard it through the grapevine
Written by Norman Whitfield and Barrett Strong
Performed by Giorgia

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9/10

Romanzo Criminale

Very good, though the story is very dramatized (and I'm Italian, so I know the story of my country).

It takes a real gangster group, link it with neo-fascist and communist actions, real characters and fictional ones, creepy cospirative figures...

It's very far from the criminal stories seen up to now in our country: the cop-movies was a genre abandoned since the '70s (they flourished in the period portrayed in Romanzo Criminale, mostly as a consequence of the feelings of the people against the political and criminal acts of these years).

But it's a very good movie, with solid story and great musics, one of the best in Italian cinematography of the last years (with "Dopo Mezzanotte / After Midnight" and "Le conseguenze dell'amore")