Hands Over the City: Votive lamps

The church in which Eduardo Nottola enters to light the votive lamps is Santa Maria della Verità, whose name was Sant’Agostino degli Scalzi, in Vico Lungo Sant’Agostino degli Scalzi, in Naples. The church is the same one filmed in “L’oro di Napoli”(1954).

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Plot:

A film that surpasses Salvatore Giuliano, and places Rosi among the greatest cinematic talents of our middle generation.

Naples, early 1960s. A building collapses due to a neighboring construction site owned by a certain Nottola, a building speculator backed by the majority that leads the city's administration. A commission of inquiry is opened from which it emerges that the paperwork for the concession was formally correct. However, Nottola has become 'inconvenient' and it is not possible to guarantee him the alderman's post that he claims as a result of the now upcoming elections.

Cast:
Rod Steiger, Salvo Randone, Alberto Amato
Directors:
Francesco Rosi