Luigi Zampa – Processo alla città aka The City Stands Trial (1952)
Turn-of-the-century Naples. Salvatore Ruotolo and his wife are murdered and their bodies are found in different locations. Since the evidence points to a crime by the Neapolitan crime organization, the Camorra, fear and corruption cause serious hindrances to the investigation by police authorities. In charge is a young and courageous judge who, using evidence discovered by chance, tries to reconstruct the story of the double murder. The plot that the judge must unravel is very complicated. Many people are questioned, even those apparently above suspicion. Deciding to get to the bottom of the matter, the judge keeps all the suspects under arrest, causing a backlash of public opinion. But in the face of passive resistance which he finds everywhere, even from his own colleagues and family, he begins to feel discouraged and is about to give up the investigation when a new piece of evidence comes to light. The information causes the death of an innocent man, but it revives in the judge the conscience of his own responsibility. He carries on with the case regardless, even if it means placing under house arrest the entire city.
The.City.Stands.Trial.AKA.Processo.alla.città.1952.576p.BluRay.H264-KG.mkv
General
Container: Matroska
Runtime: 1 h 48 min
Size: 2.60 GiB
Video
Codec: x264
Resolution: 790x576
Aspect ratio: 1.372
Frame rate: 24.000 fps
Bit rate: 3 200 kb/s
BPP: 0.293
Audio
#1: Italian 2.0ch AC-3 @ 192 kb/s (Stereo)
Language(s):Italian
Subtitles:English
Mille Grazie!
The first and foremost exemple of “film d’inchiesta” (a blend of social enquiry and fiction), an important genre of the Italian Neorealism: the father of famous movies such as “Il caso Mattei” (“The Mattei Affair”) and “Le mani sulla città” (“Hands over the City”), a true and quite forgotten gem by a marvellous craftsman, Luigi Zampa. Give it a try, you won’t regret!
Wow, thanks for this upgraded version!