Unfair Competition (film)
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Directed by | Ettore Scola |
Written by | Furio Scarpelli Ettore Scola Giacomo Scarpelli |
Produced by | Franco Committeri |
Starring | Diego Abatantuono Sergio Castellitto Gérard Depardieu |
Cinematography | Franco Di Giacomo |
Edited by | Raimondo Crociani |
Music by | Armando Trovajoli |
Release date |
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Running time | 110 minutes |
Country | Italy |
Language | Italian |
Unfair Competition (Italian: Concorrenza sleale) is a 2001 Italian drama film directed by Ettore Scola. It was filmed in Cinecittà and some of its sets were used by Martin Scorsese in Gangs of New York, as Ettore Scola said in Néstor Birri's book.
Plot[]
Rome 1938, Umberto (Diego Abatantuono) and Leone (Sergio Castellitto) have got a men's costume shop, on the same street. Umberto is Catholic, Leone is Jewish. Racial Laws are approved in Italy in 1938 after Hitler's visit to Rome (see also Ettore Scola's A Special Day).
Cast[]
- Diego Abatantuono as Umberto Melchiorri
- Sergio Castellitto as Leone DellaRocca
- Gérard Depardieu as Professor Angelo
- Antonella Attili as Giuditta DellaRocca
- Jean-Claude Brialy as Nonno Mattia DellaRocca
- Claude Rich as Count Treuberg
- Elio Germano as Paolo Melchiorri
- Sabrina Impacciatore as Matilde
- Rolando Ravello as Ignazietto Paspinelli
- Claudio Bigagli as Commissario Collegiani
Awards[]
- 23rd Moscow International Film Festival Best Director[1]
- 6 Nastro d'Argento nominations
- David di Donatello Best Production Design
References[]
- ^ "23rd Moscow International Film Festival (2001)". MIFF. Archived from the original on 2013-03-28. Retrieved 2013-03-29.
External links[]
Categories:
- 2001 films
- Italian-language films
- 2001 drama films
- Italian films
- Italian drama films
- Films directed by Ettore Scola
- Films scored by Armando Trovajoli
- Films set in 1938
- Films set in Rome
- Films about Fascist Italy
- Films about Jews and Judaism
- Films with screenplays by Ettore Scola
- 2000s drama film stubs
- 2000s Italian film stubs