Low-key UK thriller based on the 1982 Roberto Calvi affair, a scandal that began with the apparent suicide in London of an Italian banker and eventually implicated the Vatican, the Mafia and the Italian government. (Remember THE GODFATHER, PART III?) Down
on his luck street person and sporadic drunk Alan (Rupert Graves) has the misfortune to be sleeping under Tower Bridge the night that Italian politico Cavani (Franco Nero), the English police detective in his employ (Michael Gambon) and a couple of thugs hang a man from its girders. Alan has
difficulty convincing anyone of what he's seen, especially after he goes round to the police station and realizes that one o...
Released:
1995
Rated:
R
Length:
97 mins