Where it was filmed 'Big Deal After 20 Years'

Tiberio (Marcello Mastroianni) seems to have settled in well at Rebibbia prison where he was held for years. On release, he finds Rome to be radically different: even the Don Bosco neighbourhood where he lived with his wife Teresa in via Lucio Mummio has been transformed. The Roman part of the film blends locations in the centre and the suburbs. Desperate and homeless, Tiberio attempts to sell flowers stolen from Verano cemetery at a traffic light in viale Regina Elena; he tries to steal a camera at the street market in via Sannio but is stopped in time by his son Brunino who sits with him on a nearby bench in piazza San Giovanni in Laterano.

At a loss for what to do, the man decides to look up old acquaintances: Ferribotte (Tiberio Murgia) lives in piazza dei Sanniti in San Lorenzo and works at a gas station in via Portuense; the hotel Atlantic where Peppe er Pantera (Vittorio Gassman) lodges is in via Milazzo near Termini Station. Peppe has his hands on a job, but needs a female accomplice to carry it out: Tiberio surprises him in female clothes while he is sitting at the table of a bar in piazza Esedra which brings on a collapse. The heist is organized in a farm house near a railway control building (the Florence line) in via Salaria, Rome. It consists in taking money across the customs border into Yugoslavia (the delivery destination is Pirano in present day Slovenia).

Returning to Italy, Brunino and Marisa take the bus to Milan from piazza Unità d’Italia in Trieste; shortly before they stopped in viale Miramare to swim, Miramare Castle in the background; outside the Marine Acquarium Tibero and Ferribotte discover that the lorry they have driven back to Italy is full of drugs.