Bandits in Milan

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Bandits in Milan
TheViolentFour-Poster.jpg
Film poster under alternative English title
Banditi a Milano
Directed by Carlo Lizzani
Screenplay by
Story byCarlo Lizzani [1]
Produced by Dino De Laurentiis [1]
Starring
Cinematography Giuseppe Ruzzolini [1]
Edited by Franco Fraticelli [1]
Music by Riz Ortolani [1]
Production
company
Distributed by Paramount Pictures [1]
Release date
  • 30 March 1968 (1968-03-30)
Running time
98 minutes
CountryItaly [1]
Box office 1.768 billion

Bandits in Milan (Italian : Banditi a Milano; also known as The Violent Four) is a 1968 Italian crime film directed by Carlo Lizzani. It was listed to compete at the 1968 Cannes Film Festival, [2] but the festival was cancelled due to the events of May 1968 in France. [3] It is the debut film of Agostina Belli. [4] [ page needed ] 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." [5]

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Production

Like director Carlo Lizzani's previous film Wake Up and Die is based on a real life event, specifically a bank robbery that went wrong in Milan on 25 September 1967. [1]

Cast

Release

Bandits in Milan was released on 30 March 1968. [1] It grossed just over 1.768 million in Italy. [1] As of 2013, the film has never been released on home video. [1]

Notes

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Curti, 2013. p. 11
  2. "Festival de Cannes: Bandits in Milan". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 4 April 2009.
  3. "1968 - On the beach, pavers". Archived from the original on 8 November 2019. Retrieved 10 December 2013.
  4. Enrico Lancia, Roberto Poppi (2003). Dizionario del cinema italiano, Le Attrici. Gremese Editore, 2003. ISBN   888440214X.
  5. "Ecco i cento film italiani da salvare Corriere della Sera". www.corriere.it. Retrieved 11 March 2021.

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