Christmas in Rome: where the only carols are gunshots and the mistletoe is laced with coke.
Two different criminal gangs are fighting each other. Not even the police seem to be able to stop the conflict in a Christmas Rome surrounded by drug dealing, corruption, violence and arrogance.
Practical Effects
Gleefully analog violence that CGI would sterilize into nothingness.
Production
Rome as rotting backdrop—Christmas lights strung over genuine urban decay.
Director
Stefano Calvagna
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Calvagna is part of a micro-wave of Italian filmmakers resurrecting the poliziotteschi genre—1970s crime films born from political violence and economic anxiety. This is basically fanfiction for that era.
The 0.0 TMDB rating with zero votes suggests this film barely escaped complete obscurity—making your viewing possibly one of the first documented human experiences of it. Congratulations, pioneer.
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