L'odore della notte (1998)
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Cast
Valério Mastandrea, Marco Giallini, Giorgio Tirabassi, Emanuel Bevilacqua
By day, Rome police officer Remo Guerra; by night, he leads a gang robbing wealthy Romans in the name of social redemption.
The story
In Rome between 1979 and 1983, Remo Guerra is a young man from the working-class suburbs who serves as a police officer by day and leads a gang by night. The gang robs wealthy Romans using violence and threats, in the name of a social redemption otherwise beyond its reach. Remo is dissatisfied with the authority his role as a guardian of the law gives him; tied to the suburban world, he rebels through the only means available to him: stealing.
Full plot (contains spoilers)
In Rome between 1979 and 1983, a young man from the working-class suburbs, Remo Guerra, is a police officer by day and, at night, the acknowledged leader of a gang that robs wealthy Romans through violence and threats, in the name of a social redemption otherwise beyond their reach. His “proletarian soul,” unsatisfied with the authority bestowed on him by his role as a guardian of the law, rebels in the only way available to him through his ties to the world of the suburbs: by stealing. In a futile attempt to change course, he and his accomplices open a bar on the outskirts of the city, but even this proves to be a minor episode, since he seems to be entrusting his fate to his eventual capture.
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