Year of the Gun (1991)

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The master of the poetical thriller, John Frankenheimer (The Manchurian Candidate), has done it again - this time focusing his astute lens on Rome in the late seventies, a time in which the classical city is rocked by political unrest.

American journalist David Raybourne has arrived in Rome to write a political best seller about The Red Brigade, militant left-wing group terrorizing Italy. When a daring photojournalist believes Raybourne`s book to be a piece of non-fiction...the manuscript falls tragically into the wrong hands.

Now fictional characters named after Raybourne`s closest friends and colleagues suddenly become real enemies of both the terrorists and the police. Accused of knowing too much, Raybourne`s real problem is that he knows too little about the politics of Rome, about the secret lives of his friends and about the loyalties of his lovers.