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Michele Placido directs this Italian gangster thriller based on the life of Milanese career criminal Renato Vallanzasca. Kim Rossi-Stuart stars as the psychopathic yet perversely charismatic anti-hero, who is serving four consecutive life sentences for a tidal wave of kidnappings, murders and bank robberies that terrorised Milan in the 1970s. The film follows his gang's story, exploring how Vallanzasca first entered the criminal world and fast became an infamous mob boss, leading inevitably to his imprisonment. Francesco Scianna, Valeria Solarino and Paz Vega co-star.    

In the early 1970s during the Cold War, the head of British Intelligence, Control, resigns after an operation in Budapest, Hungary goes badly wrong. It transpires that Control believed one of four senior figures in the service was in fact a Russian agent - a mole - and the Hungary operation was an attempt to identify which of them it was. Smiley had been forced into retirement by the departure of Control, but is asked by a senior government figure to investigate a story told to him by a rogue agent, Ricky Tarr, that there was a mole. Smiley considers that the failure of the Hungary operation and the continuing success of Operation Witchcraft (an apparent source of significant Soviet intelligence) confirms this, and takes up the task of finding him. Through the efforts of Peter Guillam, Smiley obtains information that eventually leads him to Jim Prideaux, the agent at the heart of the Hungary fiasco...

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This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 15 working days Michele Placido directs this Italian gangster thriller based on the life of Milanese career criminal Renato Vallanzasca. Kim Rossi-Stuart stars as the psychopathic yet perversely charismatic anti-hero, who is serving four consecutive life sentences for a tidal wave of kidnappings, murders and bank robberies that terrorised Milan in the 1970s. The film follows his gang's story, exploring how Vallanzasca first entered the criminal world and fast became an infamous mob boss, leading inevitably to his imprisonment. Francesco Scianna, Valeria Solarino and Paz Vega co-star. Features Summary Michele Placido directs this Italian gangster thriller based on the life of Milanese career criminal Renato Vallanzasca. Kim Rossi-Stuart stars as the psychopathic yet perversely charismatic anti-hero... Studio Artificial Eye Format Blu-ray disc Release date 20111024 Contributors Kim Rossi Stuart (Actor), Filippo Timi (Actor), Moritz Bleibtreu (Actor), Valeria Solarino (Actor), Paz Vega (Actor), Francesco Scianna (Actor), Gaetano Bruno (Actor), Nicola Acunzo (Actor), Stefano Chiodaroli (Actor), Lino Guanciale (Actor), Paolo Mazzarelli (Actor), Federico Pacifici (Actor), Kim Rossi Stuart, Michele Placido, Antonio Leotti, Toni Trupia, Andrea Leanza, Elide Melli, Arnaldo Catinari, Michele Placido (Director)

In the early 1970s during the Cold War, the head of British Intelligence, Control, resigns after an operation in Budapest, Hungary goes badly wrong. It transpires that Control believed one of four senior figures in the service was in fact a Russian agent – a mole – and the Hungary operation was an attempt to identify which of them it was. Smiley had been forced into retirement by the departure of Control, but is asked by a senior government figure to investigate a story told to him by a rogue agent, Ricky Tarr, that there was a mole. Smiley considers that the failure of the Hungary operation and the continuing success of Operation Witchcraft (an apparent source of significant Soviet intelligence) confirms this, and takes up the task of finding him. Through the efforts of Peter Guillam, Smiley obtains information that eventually leads him to Jim Prideaux, the agent at the heart of the Hungary fiasco…