''Outlaw'' ( it, Ormai è fatta!) is a 1999 Italian

drama film In film and television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone. Drama of this kind is usually qualified with additional terms that specify its particular super-g ...

directed by

Enzo Monteleone Enzo Monteleone (born 13 April 1954 in Padova, Italy) is an Italian film director and screenwriter. Career Enzo Monteleone made his professional debut as a screenwriter with the screenplay of ''Hotel Colonial'', an Italian-American co-prod ...

. It is based on the book by the Italian

anarchist Anarchism is a political philosophy and movement that is skeptical of all justifications for authority and seeks to abolish the institutions it claims maintain unnecessary coercion and hierarchy, typically including, though not neces ...

Horst Fantazzini Horst Fantazzini (4 March 1939, Altenkessel, Saarland, German Reich – 24 December 2001, Bologna, Italy) was an Italian-German individualist anarchist Individualist anarchism is the branch of anarchism that emphasizes the individual and thei ...

. It was entered into the

21st Moscow International Film Festival The 21st Moscow International Film Festival was held from 19 to 29 July 1999. The Golden St. George was awarded to the Japanese film ''Will to Live'' directed by Kaneto Shindo. Jury * Fernando Solanas (Argentina – President of the Jury) * Flor ...

Plot

On July 23, 1973, in the prison of

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, the young Horst Fantazzini, detained with a sentence of 22 years, decides that the time has come to try to escape. However, the operation soon turns out to be more difficult than expected, and Horst is forced to take two guards hostage. At this point the jailbreak can be said to have failed in practice, but Horst certainly has no intention of giving up. Thus begins a long day, punctuated by the slow passing of minutes and hours, along which negotiations, hopes, hostage fears, Fantazzini's wife's anxiety, the telephone calls of the lawyer who uselessly advises Horst to surrender, a phone call from his father, who reproaches his son for being a thief without a real motivation unlike when he had specific political and social goals.

Cast

Stefano Accorsi Stefano Lelio Beniamino Accorsi (; born 2 March 1971) is an Italian actor. Early life and background Accorsi was born in Bologna. He graduated from Bologna's Theatrical School in 1993, and acted in the theatre for several years before moving to ...

* Giovanni Esposito as guard Di Gennaro *

Emilio Solfrizzi Emilio Solfrizzi (born 5 April 1962) is an Italian actor and comedian. Life and career Born in Bari, in 1985 Solfrizzi graduated in performing arts at the Bologna University.Giorgio Dell’Arti, Massimo Parrini. ''Catalogo dei viventi''. Mar ...

as guard Loiacono *

Antonio Catania Antonio Catania (born 22 February 1952) is an Italian actor. Life and career Born in Acireale, Province of Catania, Antonio Catania studied acting at the Drama School of the Piccolo Teatro in Milan. After the graduation he started an intense ...

as prosecutor D'Onofrio *

Antonio Petrocelli Antonio Petrocelli (born 18 September 1953) is an Italian actor. Partial filmography Film * ''The Pool Hustlers'' (1982) * '' The Eyes, the Mouth'' (1982) * ''Secrets Secrets'' (1985) * '' Il tenente dei carabinieri'' (1986) * ''The Strangeness ...

as prison warden Ridolfi *

Fabrizia Sacchi Fabrizia Sacchi (born 10 February 1971) is an Italian actress. Sacchi was born in Naples. Her acting credits include '' Viaggio sola'', '' Fuoriclasse'', ''Medicina generale'' and ''The First Beautiful Thing''. In 2013 she was nominated to Dav ...

as Anna, wife of Fantazzini *

Paolo Graziosi Paolo Graziosi (25 January 1940 – 1 February 2022) was an Italian stage and film actor. Biography Born in Rimini, Graziosi was rejected for the admission exams at the Academy of Dramatic Arts Silvio D'Amico in 1961. He then enrolled at the C ...

as carabinieri colonel Tagliaferri *

Alessandro Haber Alessandro Haber (born 19 January 1947) is an italian people, Italian actor, film director and singer. Haber was born in Bologna in a Italian Jews, Jewish family of mixed ancestry (his father was a Romanian Jew and his mother Italian) and spent ...

as Fantazzini's lawyer * Francesco Guccini as Alfonso Fantazzini, father of Horst

References

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* Italian drama films 1999 films 1999 drama films Films about anarchism 1990s Italian-language films Films directed by Enzo Monteleone Films set in 1973 1990s Italian films {{1990s-drama-film-stub