Hands over the City

Hands over the City is a 1963 Italian drama film co-written and directed by Francesco Rosi. It follows the real estate agent and politician Eduardo Nottola, who uses his power as a city councilman member to lobby for the displacement of the impoverished Naples population, and his personal fight against the idealist socialist politician De Vita.
The film had its world premiere at the main competition of the 23rd Venice International Film Festival, where it won the Golden Lion, the festival's top prize.
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, 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 initiates an inquiry into Nottola's connection to the accident.