Unfair Competition (film)
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.
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| Directed by | Ettore Scola |
| Produced by | Franco Committeri |
| Written by | Furio Scarpelli Ettore Scola Silvia Scola Giacomo Scarpelli |
| Starring | Diego Abatantuono Sergio Castellitto Gérard Depardieu |
| Music by | Armando Trovajoli |
| Cinematography | Franco Di Giacomo |
| Edited by | Raimondo Crociani |
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Running time | 110 minutes |
| Country | Italy |
| Language | Italian |
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 the police inspector
Awards
- 23rd Moscow International Film Festival Best Director[1]
- 6 Nastro d'Argento nominations
- David di Donatello Best Production Design
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References
- "23rd Moscow International Film Festival (2001)". MIFF. Archived from the original on 2013-03-28. Retrieved 2013-03-29.
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