Taglines: In a city bathed in blood… who can you trust?
Year of the Gun movie storyline. In 1978, David Raybourne is an American novelist who lives in Rome and works as a journalist in a small English-language newspaper. He is romantically involved with Lia, the estranged wife of an Italian Industrialist, and befriended by Italo Bianchi, a politically left-leaning lecturer at a Rome university.
The movie re-creates the backdrop of politically charged atmosphere and student unrest, in which the infamous Red Brigades commit their spate of violent attacks which rocked northern Italy in the 1970s, culminating in the kidnapping and later murder of Aldo Moro, former Italian Prime Minister.
As part of a plan to write a commercial novel and raise money to marry and support Lia in the style to which she is accustomed, Raybourne researches the activities and organization of the Red Brigades. He writes the draft of a novel, realistic but fictitious, with the plot centered on the kidnapping of a central political figure by the Red Brigades.
During this time David Raybourne meets a beautiful and sexually provocative young photojournalist, Alison King. She is eager for a news story and is introduced by Raybourne to Italo Bianchi. Alison King becomes convinced that Raybourne knows something about the Red Brigades and is hiding a potential scoop from her, so after a sexual dalliance she searches his apartment and finds Raybourne’s novel draft.
She brings this to the attention of Bianchi who, despite his mild manner and seemingly moderate politics, is actually collaborating with the Red Brigades. He delivers the draft to a Red Brigades contact and the similarity of his fictitious plot to their actual kidnap plans causes them to conclude that their plans have been leaked. Raybourne realizes he is being hunted when the Brigades shoot his boss Pierre Bernier dead at the newspaper office, moments before Raybourne himself arrives. He then attempts to escape with Alison King with the aid of his romantic connection, Lia.
Year of the Gun is a 1991 American thriller film directed by John Frankenheimer and starred Andrew McCarthy, Sharon Stone, Valeria Golino, John Pankow, Mattia Sbragia, Francesca Prandi, Carla Cassola, Pietro Bontempo and Carol Schneider.
Year of the Gun (1991)
Directed by: John Frankenheimer
Starring: Andrew McCarthy, Sharon Stone, Valeria Golino, John Pankow, Mattia Sbragia, Francesca Prandi, Carla Cassola, Pietro Bontempo, Carol Schneider
Screenplay by: David Ambrose
Production Design by: Aurelio Crugnola
Cinematography by: Blasco Giurato
Film Editing by: Lee Percy
Costume Design by: Ray Summers
Set Decoration by: Franco Fumagalli
Art Direction by: Luigi Quintili
Music by: Bill Conti, Robert J. Walsh
MPAA Rating: R for violence, sensuality and language.
Distributed by: Triumph Releasing Corp.
Release Date: November 1, 1991
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