Once Upon a Time in America
Sergio Leone
David Aaronson, aka "Noodles", a disillusioned and lonely old man, returns to New York, the city of his youth that he had fled 30 years earlier. Memories flood back to the surface, memories of his delinquent youth with his gang of friends in the Jewish ghetto of the 1920s. He particularly remembers Max, violence and Prohibition. But Noodles will soon have to deal with a terrible secret...
With : Robert De Niro, James Woods, Elizabeth McGovern, Tuesday Weld, Treat Williams, Joe Pesci, James Hayden
Screenplay : Leonardo Benvenuti, Piero De Bernardi, Enrico Medioli, Franco Arcalli, Franco Ferrini, Franco Ferrini, Stuart Kaminsky, d'après le roman de Harry Grey The Hoods
Image : Tonino Delli Colli
Sound : Jean Pierre Ruhu
Music : Ennio Morricone
Editing : Nino Baragli
Decors : Gretchen Rau
Screenplay : Leonardo Benvenuti, Piero De Bernardi, Enrico Medioli, Franco Arcalli, Franco Ferrini, Franco Ferrini, Stuart Kaminsky, d'après le roman de Harry Grey The Hoods
Image : Tonino Delli Colli
Sound : Jean Pierre Ruhu
Music : Ennio Morricone
Editing : Nino Baragli
Decors : Gretchen Rau
Production : Arnon Milchan, Embassy International Pictures
Distribution: New Regency
Distribution: New Regency
"I wanted to film Once Upon a Time in America before Once Upon a Time in the West. But if producers excuse your failures, they never pardon your successes". It took Sergio Leone 15 years to complete his project. The film became his testament as he died a few years after the film's release. The American panorama is off the beaten track of Hollywood on account of its hardness and the temporal construction of the narrative. "I made a film on time, memory and cinema itself: ‘Once Upon a Time There Was a Certain Type of Cinema'. My American is a space in perspective with many vanishing points, it is a contact with part of my childhood, a rediscovered emotion, it is the metaphysical link through which it is possible to laugh at and be surprised by all the differences between the real and the artificial" (Sergio Leone).