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Crew:
Director: Abel Ferrara
Screenplay: Nicholas St. John
DOP: Bojan Bazelli
Production: Reteitalia, Scena International
Screenplay: Nicholas St. John
DOP: Bojan Bazelli
Production: Reteitalia, Scena International
The gritty underbelly of New York's complex, ethnically divided criminal world is exposed in this dark drama from director Abel Ferrara. Christopher Walken stars as Frank White, a drug lord who's just been released from a long stint in prison. Aware that feeding off of society's depravity has made him a wealthy man, Frank has become determined to give something back to the city, and he hatches a scheme to build a multimillion-dollar public hospital in one of Brooklyn's worst ghetto neighborhoods. Needing the assistance of his fellow criminals to pull it off, Frank and his adjutant Jimmy Jump (Laurence Fishburne) encounter a wall of resistance from every faction, including drug-trade partner Lance Wong (Joey Chin) and temperamental cop Dennis Gilley (David Caruso). Frank's do-gooder efforts ultimately result in a Mob war and in a bloody showdown between the city's various ethnic criminal actions.
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Cast:
Christopher Walken, David Caruso, Wesley Snipes, Steve Buscemi, Laurence Fishburne, Vanessa Angel, Erica Gimpel -
Original Title:
King of New York -
Country:
United States of America, Italy -
Year:
1990 - 103'
Crew:
Director: Abel Ferrara
Screenplay: Nicholas St. John
DOP: Bojan Bazelli
Production: Reteitalia, Scena International
Screenplay: Nicholas St. John
DOP: Bojan Bazelli
Production: Reteitalia, Scena International
Director
Abel Ferrara

Born in New York in 1951, Abel Ferrara is an American filmmaker, known for the provocative and often controversial content of his films, his use of neo-noir imagery and gritty urban settings. He maintains a cult reputation that allows him to navigate between large-budget features and decadent B-movie-style tales. A long-time independent filmmaker, his best-known films include Ms .45 (1981), King of New York (1990), Bad Lieutenant (1992), The Funeral (1996) and Pasolini (2014). Abel Ferrara has been a guest of LEFFEST several times, and his work was screened in a Retrospective at LEFFEST’ 17. He returns this year to the festival to present his new film Padre Pio.