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La banda Casaroli
La banda Casaroli is a 1962 Italian crime-drama film directed by Florestano Vancini. The film is based on real life events of criminal group led by Paolo Casaroli.[1][2] PlotIn a fog-shrouded square in Bologna, a young man named Gabriele Ingenis roams among onlookers under the arcades, visibly dazed after a recent bloody shootout. Gabriele, an Istrian refugee, had crossed paths with his old friend Corrado Minguzzi and Paolo Casaroli a few months earlier at a Bologna Luna Park. Together, the trio embarks on a shared destiny, obtaining weapons and forming a gang of bank robbers with occasional accomplices. Their first robbery, almost impromptu, takes place in a Lombardy agricultural center against a small bank. As the gang becomes more organized, they stage a heist in Genoa, targeting a bank full of employees and customers, successfully emptying the safe. Flush with cash, the three move from Bologna to Venice, living the good life by enjoying the company of easy-going women and trying their luck at the casino. Running low on funds, they decide to make a big score in Rome. However, the plan goes awry when a cashier tries to disarm Casaroli during the heist. Ingenis intervenes, shooting the cashier, and as they flee, Minguzzi fires at a pursuer, triggering an alarm. Their attempt to evade the police in Rome results in more casualties. Believing his friends are dead, the uninvolved Ingenis commits suicide in a cinema with a gunshot. Casaroli, severely injured but still alive, is hospitalized. A journalist manages to talk to him, and upon leaving, hears the outlaw singing the chorus of "Paquito lindo," a song from the movie Fear and Sand. Cast
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