Product Details

• Actors: Diego Abatantuono, Silvio Orlando, Valentina Cervi, Flavio Insinna, Ugo Conti
• Directors: Davide Ferrario
• Format: Color, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
• Language: Italian
• Subtitles: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Number of discs: 1
• Rating: Unrated
• Studio: Tla
• DVD Release Date: November 18, 2003
• Run Time: 93 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 2.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B0000CC88B
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #132,387 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Children of Hannibal (Figli di Annibale)" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

Editorial Reviews

Product Description

Unemployed Domenico decides to rob a bank in Italy and escape to Switzerland. Everything goes horribly wrong and he takes a hostage. The man he chooses, Tommaso, is more unscrupulous than Domenico. He hates his wife, his business is doing poorly and the kidnapping appears to be a good way to disappear and start over again. The victim takes over the plans and becomes the leader as things go from bad to worse. Children of Hannibal is both an unpredictable caper film and an often hilarious road movie.

Customer Reviews

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3.0 out of 5 stars An Unpredictable Caper, May 18, 2008

By	Amos Lassen (Little Rock, Arkansas) - See all my reviews (TOP 100 REVIEWER)

"Children of Hannibal"

An Unpredictable Caper

Amos Lassen

Male bonding and a road trip are the subjects of Davide Ferrario's "Children of Hannibal". If you can imagine a combination of a bungling bank robber, a hostage who refuses to cooperate, a gay policeman and a situation which goes from bad to worse than you have an idea what this film is about. Domenico is a sad guy and without a job as well. He decides to rob a bank in Turin, Italy and then flee to Switzerland. Of course things do not quite work out that way. The heist is bungled and he ends up with Tommaso as his hostage. Tommaso is a tall, patrician businessman who is on the verge of bankruptcy. He takes over the robbery and convinces Domenico to go south, get some help from a friend of his and then head for Egypt. This doesn't quite work out either as Domenico discovers that Orfeo is not only Tomasso's lover and also a policeman. What was once a couple becomes a threesome and then Tommaso's grown daughter also decides to enter the scheme. It just does not seem that Domenico is going to get out of the country.
For the first half of the film I found myself laughing a lot the entire time but when the daughter played by Valentina Cervi to probably lend balance to the gay plot, the movie began to lose steam. Diego Abatantuono as Domenico and Silvio Orlando as Tomasso are great together bantering between themselves and it is a pity that a female had to be introduced to counter this. Otherwise this is really an enjoyable movie.

2.0 out of 5 stars NO ES LA GRAN COSA, April 11, 2007

By	Jorge Puig Torres - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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