It was once in America

See also: It was once

It was once in America ( Once upon has Time in America ) is the last film carried out by Sergio Leone, left in 1984. It is adapted novel The Hoods of Harry Grey.

Synopsis

David Aaronson, known as “Noodles”, old tired and solitary man, returns to New York and remembers. He contemplates of a hard, disillusioned glance and yet wise and alleviated his missed life.

These juvenile delinquents in the Jewish ghetto of the Years 1920, its band of friends and especially max, his close friend. Their rise without glory in the Underworld, the traffic of alcohol, smokings of Opium.

But he remembers also violence, sinks it period of the Prohibition, the wild murders… and this treason which destroyed its life.

Comment

Sergio Leone, of return behind the camera, directs with masterliness this epopee American, blazing and bloody, which covers forty years of the life of a gangster.

This film took 15 years to the director of legendary the It was once in the West , and offers to Robert De Niro a performance of actor masterly and disproportionate.

Data sheet

  • Title: It was once in America
  • original Titer: Once Upon has Time in America
  • Réalisateur: Standard Sergio Leone
  • : Crime/Drama
  • Lasted: 229 minutes
  • Year of exit: 1984
  • Regulation: Interdict with less than 16 years
  • Scenario writers: Leonardo Benvenuti, Piero De Bernardi, Enrico Medioli, Free Arcalli, Free Ferrini, and Sergio Leone.
  • Inspired of the news The Hoods of Harry Grey.
  • Producing: Claudio Mancini and Arnon Milchan
  • Type-setter: Ennio Morricone
    • Photo
  • : Tonino Delli Colli
  • Decorations: Giovanni Natalucci, Gratch-Rau, Osvaldo Desideri
  • Assembly: Nino Baragli
  • Poster artist: Clement Hurel

Distribution

Simple: Once Upon has Time in America

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