Directed by:
Francesco RosiCinematography:
Pasqualino De SantisComposer:
Piero PiccioniCast:
Gian Maria Volonté, Vincent Gardenia, Charles Cioffi, Larry Gates, Edmond O'Brien, Rod Steiger, Frank Adonis, Vincenzo Falanga, Jacques Monod, Magda Konopka (more)Plots(1)
After serving a nine-year prison sentence, Italo-American mafia boss Salvatore Luciano is deported to Italy where he sets up a hub for the trafficking of drugs between Asia and the USA – a crime for which the police are unable to convict him. "LUCKY LUCIANO represents a new high point in Rosi's oeuvre. The politically explosive subject-matter of THE MATTEI AFFAIR is eclipsed in the new work, not just because of its subject, but also because of the central performance. Not only does Gian Maria Volonté manage to create a thoroughly convincing portrayal of the ambivalent mafioso, he identifies completely with Rosi's fundamental principles of style." (Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 6.4.1974) (Berlinale)
(more)Cast
Gian Maria Volonté
Italy
Best movies:
For a Few Dollars More (1965)
A Fistful of Dollars (1964)
The Moro Affair (1986)
Vincent Gardenia
Italy
Best movies:
The Front Page (1974)
The Big Racket (1976)
The Hustler (1961)
Charles Cioffi
USA
Best movies:
The X-Files – File 9: Redux (1997) (video compilation)
Columbo (1971) (series)
Missing (1982)
Larry Gates
USA
Best movies:
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958)
In the Heat of the Night (1967)
Airport (1970)
Edmond O'Brien
USA
Best movies:
The Longest Day (1962)
White Heat (1949)
The Wild Bunch (1969)
Rod Steiger
USA
Best movies:
Producers' Showcase (1954) (series)
Der Zauberberg (1982)
The Longest Day (1962)
Frank Adonis
USA
Best movies:
Casino (1995)
Goodfellas (1990)
Raging Bull (1980)
Vincenzo Falanga
Best movies:
Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion (1970)
Violent Naples (1976)
Mafia (1968)
Jacques Monod
Morocco
Best movies:
Le Glaive et la balance (1963)
Two Men in Town (1973)
The 400 Blows (1959)
Magda Konopka
Poland
Best movies:
Becket (1964)
A Sky Full of Stars for a Roof (1968)
Hell Boats (1970)
Karin Petersen
France
Best movies:
Stavros Tornes
Greece
Best movies:
Christ Stopped at Eboli (1979)
The Mattei Affair (1972)
Many Wars Ago (1970)
Pier Maria Pasinetti
Italy
Best movies:
Lucky Luciano (1973)
Alberto Amato
Best movies:
Hands Over the City (1963)
His Days Are Numbered (1962)
Lucky Luciano (1973)
Dino Curcio
Best movies:
Miseria e nobiltà (1954)
It Happened in the Park (1953)
Lucky Luciano (1973)
Luciano Zanussi
Best movies:
The Professor (1986)
Silent Action (1975)
Brothers Till We Die (1978)
Vittorio Fanfoni
Italy
Best movies:
1900 (1976)
Conversation Piece (1974)
I Am Afraid (1977)