1 Title: Romanzo Criminale
2 Tags: en, romanzo criminale, movie, drama, true story, banda della magliana
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9 `Romanzo Criminale`__ (Crime Novel) is an Italian-language film released in
10 2005, directed by Michele Placido, a criminal drama, it was highly acclaimed
11 and won 15 awards. It is based on Giancarlo De Cataldo's 2002 novel, which
12 is in turn inspired by the `Banda della Magliana`__ true story. The
13 Magliana gang was one of the most powerful Italian criminal associations,
14 dominating Rome's drug, gambling and other kinds of crime activities from
15 the early 1970s to 1992 (death of Enrico De Pedis). The gang's affiliates
16 start their career kidnapping rich people, drug dealing (hashish, cocaine,
17 heroin, etc.) from the 70s they started working with the Italian secret
18 service, fascists, terrorists, the Sicilian Cosa Nostra, Camorra and many
19 more. Some gang members are still alive, as inmates of an Italian prison, or
20 justice collaborators (Massimo Carminati, Maurizio Abbatino).
22 __ http://en.wikipedia.org/
23 __ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanzo_Criminale
24 __ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banda_della_Magliana
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