Director: Stefano Sollima
Rome's underworld closes ranks around one panicked teenager in Adagio, a 2023 crime thriller where old debts between aging gangsters and dirty cops finally come due.
What is Adagio about?
A young man gets pulled into a blackmail scheme involving corrupt police officers, and the fallout puts his life in immediate danger. With nowhere else to turn, he reaches out to men his father once ran with — retired figures from Rome's criminal underworld who haven't seen each other in years and have every reason to stay hidden. Reluctantly, they resurface, calling in favors and settling scores they'd hoped to leave buried, all to shield a kid who barely knows them. As the night stretches on, loyalty gets tested against self-preservation, and each of these weathered men has to decide how much of his own safety he's willing to spend on someone else's mistake. The result is a tense, slow-burning thriller built on atmosphere and consequence rather than spectacle.
Cast & crew
Pierfrancesco Favino and Toni Servillo lead a cast of Italian screen veterans, with Valerio Mastandrea and Adriano Giannini playing key roles in the tangled web of blackmail and old loyalties. Gianmarco Franchini appears as the young man whose mistake sets the entire plot in motion.
Context & significance
Directed by Stefano Sollima, known for gritty crime dramas set in Rome's margins, Adagio is a French-Italian co-production released in 2023. It runs 127 minutes and carries an IMDb rating of 6.6, positioning it as a patient, character-driven entry in the European crime genre rather than a fast-paced action vehicle.
Where & how to watch
Adagio is available on K-Time with Persian dubbing and Persian subtitles, letting Farsi-speaking viewers follow its layered dialogue and tense negotiations without losing nuance. Browsing the film's page requires nothing, and watching it only calls for logging into a K-Time account built around a Farsi-first streaming experience for the diaspora.