Number One

Number One (1973)

This raw Italian political melodrama investigates the underbelly of Rome in the early '70s, exposing drugs, crime, and sexual scandals.

Data lansării
1973-05-28
TMDB
7.8 / 10 (3)
Durată
1 h 35 min
Genuri
Crimă
Regizor
Gianni Buffardi

Distribuție

Curiozități

Number One is a 1973 Italian crime drama film directed by Gianni Buffardi and starring Renzo Montagnani, Luigi Pistilli, Claude Jade, Chris Avram, Guido Mannari and Massimo Serato. The film is loosely based on a real-life story detailing crime and drugs in the Rome underground. After the film quickly disappeared from public view in 1973 due to political censorship, it was restored in 2021 and had a theatrical re-release and world premiere on television.

Production

Nicola Campigli, to whom his late father Massimo bequeathed a fortune in pictures in 1971, is the victim of an art theft. Since Campigli has frequented Rome's jet set at Club "Number One", he meets the son-in-law of comedian Totò, the young film producer Gianni Buffardi. After the thieves are discovered, Campigli and Buffardi do research in the nightclub and at police stations.

In an uncredited extra appearance, Eleonora Giorgi is seen in her first film appearance. She is a blonde companion in the nightclub to Commenda, played by Renato Turi.

Since the film makes references to the then-current trials surrounding Number One and makes real people recognisable, such as the deaths of Talitha Getty and the Banda della Magliana (Magliana Gang), it was immediately withdrawn from circulation after the screening. It wasn't until 2021 that the film was restored by the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia and saw its re-release and world premiere on television.

The film, whose main characters are pseudonyms of partly real representatives of the jet set in Rome in the 1970s, disappears from the public. The Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia and the Cineteca Nazionale are reconstructing the film in collaboration with the television broadcaster Cine34. Roberto D'Ettore Piazzoli, the cameraman at the time, and Antonello Buffardi, the director's son, are also present.

Shortly after it was shown at the film festival, the film premiered on television on Italian Channel Cine 34 on 9 December 2021.

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