*Romanzo criminale*, 2005 Italian gangster epic directed by Michele Placido, demonstrates that the genre formula established by Coppola and Scorsese can also be used in their ancestral country. The film is based by eponymous 2002 novel by former judge Giancarlo De Cataldo. The plot begins in the 1970s when three poor young men from a Roman suburb – Cesare Rocchi a.k.a. "Il Lebanese" (played by Pierfrancesco Favino),…






