Strangled Lives

Vite strozzate

Italy, France, Belgium

1996

108 Min

Color

Italian

Currently 2.0/5 Stars.
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PROD Vittorio Cecchi Gori, Rita Rusic

SCR Ricky Tognazzi, Simona Izzo, Graziano Diana, Giuseppe Manfridi, Francesco Taurisano

CAST Sabrina Ferilli, Vincent Lindon, Luca Zingaretti, Lina Sastri, Ricky Memphis, Violante Placido, Vittorio Amandola, Guia Jelo, Francesco Venditti

MUSIC Ennio Morricone

Berlinale (Competition): Alfred Bauer Award

Synopsis

Francesco is an active entrepreneur in the building industry. His firm is near to collapse if it won’t win a deal to build a new school complex. It needs at least 60 Mn Lire (30k Euro) to participate to the deal, but all the banks refuse to lend the money it needs. A corrupted bank employee introduces Francesco to Claudio, apparently an assistant of Sergio, Francesco’s old school friend. Sergio is an accountant available to lend Francesco the money he needs. Francesco wins the deal. But soon he will discover Claudio isn’t what he says he is. At the end the cost to pay will be too high and will make his family running high risks. —IMDb

Director

Ricky Tognazzi

Riccardo (Ricky) Tognazzi (b. 1 May 1955) is an Italian actor and film director. He has appeared in 50 films and television shows since 1963. His film The Escort was entered into the 1993 Cannes Film Festival. In 1991, he won the Silver Bear for Best Director at the 41st Berlin International Film Festival for his film Ultra.He is the son of film actor and director Ugo Tognazzi and the half-brother of actor Gianmarco Tognazzi and film director Maria Sole Tognazzi —Wikipedia