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Unfair Competition (film)

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Unfair Competition
Directed byEttore Scola
Written byFurio Scarpelli
Ettore Scola
Silvia Scola
Giacomo Scarpelli
Produced byFranco Committeri
StarringDiego Abatantuono
Sergio Castellitto
Gérard Depardieu
CinematographyFranco Di Giacomo
Edited byRaimondo Crociani
Music byArmando Trovajoli
Release date
  • 23 February 2001 (2001-02-23)
Running time
110 minutes
CountryItaly
LanguageItalian

Unfair Competition (Italian: Concorrenza sleale) is a 2001 Italian drama film directed by Ettore Scola. It was filmed in Cinecittà and some of its sets were used by Martin Scorsese in Gangs of New York, as Ettore Scola said in Néstor Birri's book.

Plot

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Rome 1938, Umberto (Diego Abatantuono) and Leone (Sergio Castellitto) have got a men's costume shop, on the same street. Umberto is Catholic, Leone is Jewish. Racial Laws are approved in Italy in 1938 after Hitler's visit to Rome (see also Ettore Scola's A Special Day).

Cast

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Awards

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References

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  1. ^ "23rd Moscow International Film Festival (2001)". MIFF. Archived from the original on 2013-03-28. Retrieved 2013-03-29.
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