Vallanzasca: Gli angeli del male (2010)

Director:

Michele Placido

Writers:

Renato Vallanzasca (book) &
Carlo Bonini (book) ...
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Release Date:

21 January 2011 (Italy)

Genre:

Biography | Crime | Drama | Thriller

Tagline:

The incredible true story of Italy's most notorious gangster.

Plot:

A biography of Milanese bank robber Renato Vallanzasca. |

Plot Keywords:

Bank Robber | Italy | Controversy | Murder | Escape From Custody

Awards:

4 wins & 10 nominations

Cast

Kim Rossi Stuart	...	Renato Vallanzasca
Filippo Timi	...	Enzo
Valeria Solarino	...	Consuelo
Moritz Bleibtreu	...	Sergio
Paz Vega	...	Antonella D'Agostino
Francesco Scianna	...	Turatello
Gaetano Bruno	...	Fausto
Lino Guanciale	...	Nunzio
Paolo Mazzarelli	...	Beppe
Nicola Acunzo	...	Rosario
Giorgio Careccia	...	Carmelo
Stefano Chiodaroli	...	Armando
Federica Vincenti	...	Giuliana
Marica Gungui	...	Maria
Monica Barladeanu	...	Nicoletta (as Monica Elena Bîrladeanu)
Gerardo Amato	...	Renato's Father
Lorenzo Gleijeses	...	Donato
Joseph Scarlata	...	Sgherro Turatello 2 (as Giuseppe Filippo Scarlata)
Riccardo Cicogna	...	Sgherro Turatello 1 (as Riccardo Von Hoening Cicogna)
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Adriana De Guilmi	...	Renato's Mother
Francesca De Martini	...	Giuliana's Mother
Stefano Fregni	...	Scaglione
Lia Gotti	...	Carmen
Matilde Maggio	...	Barbara (as Matilde Pezzotta)
Federico Pacifici	...	Chirurgo
Toni Pandolfo	...	Spaghettino
Massimo Sagramola	...	Compare Enzo

Directed by
Michele Placido

Writing credits
Renato Vallanzasca		(book) &
Carlo Bonini		(book) and
Antonella D'Agostino		(book)
Andrea Purgatori		(story) &
Angelo Pasquini		(story)
Kim Rossi Stuart		screenplay &
Michele Placido		screenplay &
Antonio Leotti		screenplay &
Toni Trupia		screenplay &
Andrea Leanza		screenplay and
Antonella D'Agostino		screenplay collaboration
Michele Placido		(dialogue supervisor) &
Kim Rossi Stuart		(dialogue supervisor)

Produced by
Elide Melli	....	producer

Original Music by
Negramaro

Cinematography by
Arnaldo Catinari

Film Editing by
Consuelo Catucci

Casting by
Miguel Lombardi

Production Design by
Tonino Zera

Art Direction by
Gaia Zambelli

Set Decoration by
Daniela Zorzetto

Costume Design by
Roberto Chiocchi

Makeup Department
Federico Carretti	....	makeup artist
Francesco Nardi	....	key makeup artist
Diego Prestopino	....	additional makeup artist
Matteo Silvi	....	makeup artist

Production Management
Valerio Stati	....	production manager

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Elena Casnati	....	third assistant director
Enrico Clerico Nasino	....	second assistant director
Miguel Lombardi	....	first assistant director
Gianluca Mangiasciutti	....	assistant director: Roma

Art Department
Sandro Erdolini	....	painter
Armando Vici	....	head carpenter

Sound Department
Luca Anzellotti	....	sound designer
Luca Anzellotti	....	sound effects editor
Antonio Barba	....	sound mixer
Gaetano Carito	....	sound mixer
Davide Favargiotti	....	dialogue editor
Pierpaolo Lorenzo	....	cableman
Pierpaolo Merafino	....	boom operator
John Soukup	....	sound transfer (uncredited)

Visual Effects by
Stefano De Gennaro	....	digital technology manager
Mauro Elefante	....	workflow manager
Pierfrancesco Fiorenza	....	visual effects producer
Mauro Maccari	....	visual effects artist
Mauro Maccari	....	visual effects supervisor
Adriano Macchitella	....	visual effects
Simone Nobili	....	digital intermediate supervisor
Elisa Tiziani	....	visual effects
Paolo Verrucci	....	digital film colorist

Stunts
Giampiero Comanducci	....	stunts
Francesco Petrazzi	....	stunts
Gianluca Petrazzi	....	stunt coordinator
David Zamperla	....	stunts
Mirko Zamperla	....	stunts

Camera and Electrical Department
Khrisna Agazzi	....	assistant camera
Marcello Bernardi	....	video assist operator
Fabio Capozzi	....	gaffer
Claudio Cofrancesco	....	camera operator: b camera
Simone D'Onofrio	....	daily focus puller
Luciano Mastropietro	....	key grip
Juri Molinaroli	....	focus puller: b camera
Riccardo Ricci	....	grip
Pedretti Stefano	....	focus puller: segment
Davide Zanetti	....	additional first assistant camera: "c" camera

Casting Department
Valentina Materiale	....	additional casting
Giorgio Servillo	....	additional casting

Costume and Wardrobe Department
Leonardo Cruciano	....	prop costume maker

Editorial Department
Andrea Vacca	....	second assistant editor
Gianni Vezzosi	....	assistant editor

Transportation Department
Paolo Bernardini	....	production driver

Other crew
Roberto Alchimede	....	unit manager
Marco Bergamaschi	....	assistant location manager
Sergio De Vidovich	....	location manager
Fabio Fumelli	....	machinist
Anna Kokourina	....	studio executive
Margherita Spampinato	....	script supervisor

Production Companies

• Cosmo Production
• Fox International Production Italy
• Babe Film
• Canal+ (in collaboration with)
• CinéCinéma (in collaboration with)
• Mandragora Movies (in collaboration with)

Distributors

• 20th Century Fox Italia (2011) (Italy) (theatrical)
• 20th Century Fox of Germany (2011) (Germany) (theatrical)
• ABC Distribution (2011) (Belgium) (theatrical)
• Artificial Eye (2011) (UK) (theatrical)
• Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation (2011) (USA) (theatrical) (subtitled)
• Wild Bunch Distribution (2011) (France) (theatrical)
• Homescreen (2012) (Belgium) (DVD)
• Homescreen (2012) (Netherlands) (DVD)
• Madman Entertainment (2011) (Australia) (all media)

Special Effects

• Leonardo Cruciano Workshop (costume props)

Other Companies

• Deluxe Digital Rome  post-production services and facilities

Also Known As:

"Angel of Evil" - USA (imdb display title)
"Angel of Evil - Vallanzasca" - USA (DVD box title)
"Angels of Evil" - UK (imdb display title)
"L'ange du mal (Vallanzasca)" - France (imdb display title)
"Engel des Bösen - Die Geschichte eines Staatsfeindes" - Germany (imdb display title)

MPAA:

Rated R for strong brutal violence, pervasive language, some sexual content, nudity and drug use

Runtime:

125 min

Country:

Italy | France | Romania

Language:

Italian

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

Italy:VM14 | USA:R (certificate #46636) | Germany:16 | UK:15 | Ireland:16 | Singapore:R21 | Netherlands:12

Filming Locations:

Milan, Lombardia, Italy

Company:

Cosmo Production

Angels of Evil (2010)

This is my review of the DVD/Blu, written for Flick Feast: Angels of Evil is the biographical true story of Italy's most notorious gangster and Milanese bank robber, Renato Vallanzasca.

The movie starts in 1981 in a maximum security prison, where Renato Vallanzasca (Kim Rossi Stuart) rules the roost. He strolls around his dirty prison cell in his pants and gets served a bowl of filthy looking rice with a cockroach crawling around in it. From scene one, we can tell this isn't going to be a pretty looking film. Whilst beating up prison guards, we hear his voice-over saying he 'never could stand bullies' and because of this, his first job was freeing circus animals from their cages.

He got into crime from an early age, stealing heaters and other electrical equipment to sell on. Because of his downright thuggery, he gets sent to a juvenile detention centre, where he eventually becomes the "boss of the Comasina", which is a district in Milan.

Bank robber Vallanzasca has a gang of not so merry men, including crackpot best friend Enzo, played by Filippo Timi. They seem to enjoy nothing more than to terrorise the poor folk of Milan, committing murders, robberies and kidnappings, while profits are spent on women and drugs.

They finally have it out with their rival Francis Turatello and Vallanzasca's team hold wealthy residents to ransom. As you can imagine, things get a little messy.

Kim Rossi Stuart has a lot of charm, mixed with a crazy brutality and a great face to slap on the front of a newspaper. There's a fantastic scene where Vallanzasca dresses as a business man and just strolls straight through into the bank's back room to help himself and it's only with this charm that he manages to go through with it.

There is a bit of a trend in Euro-crime dramas recently and if you want to see a better and grittier prison film, check out A Prophet.

Michele Placido is not a stranger to the crime/drama genre and we're left feeling that he could have made more from this. Angels of Evil could possibly have benefited from being a tad shorter and with six writers on the project, could it have been a case of too many pens spoil the screenplay? It's a decent film and worth a watch with its grimy story, charting the rise and fall of a well known gangster, but it's been done better before.

The disc is great, with special features including a making of featurette, an interview with Stuart and a few deleted and extended scenes thrown in there for good measure.