The Band of Honest Men

The Band of Honest Men

1956101 min7.7 / 10

A lighthearted Italian comedy about three working-class friends whose bumbling counterfeiting scheme becomes a vehicle for exploring friendship, family, and the gap between ambition and reality.

Italy, mid '60s. Three guys from a poor neighbourhood try to get rich by printing fake money using the fact that one of them works as a typographer. The story unravels around their embarrassed efforts to spend the money, their little family issues and ends with a surprise.

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