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Year of the Gun is a 1991 American spy action thriller film directed by John Frankenheimer and starring Andrew McCarthy, Sharon Stone and Valeria Golino.
Nov 1, 1991 · In “Year of the Gun,” his name is David Raybourne, played by Andrew McCarthy. It is 1978, and Raybourne is an American free-lance writer, living in Rome, writing a novel. It is the time of the Red Brigades, of underground terrorist groups with fierce and unbending codes to enforce their secrecy.
The film is meant to be set in 1978 around the time when the Red Brigades kidnapped Aldo Moro and waged war against the state ,the problem is the film is packed full of cars from the late 80s and...
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Year of the Gun sees John Frankenheimer returning to the political spectrum for the first time in over a decade. It has an anachronistic quality, functioning as a Cold War thriller except replacing the Iron Curtain with Italy during one of its own periods of civil unrest.
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The film recreates 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.
YEAR OF THE GUN. Suspense. The master of the political thriller, John Frankenheimer (The Manchurian Candidate), has done it again, this time focusing his astute lens on Rome in the late seventies, a time when the classical city was rocked by political unrest.
