Gangsters in milan

The film, partly filmed in the style of a police report, is devoted to the problem of a surge in criminal and political violence in Italy in the late 1960s, which foreshadowed a “lead decade” . The tape is based on the story of the Cavallero gang , arrested on September 25, 1967 in Milan after a half-hour chase and a shootout with the police.

Pietro Cavallero creates a gang to rob banks to finance the proletarian revolution . Raiders act brazenly, having managed to rob two or three bank branches in a row in one day, but the 17th raid is fatal for them. Commissioner Bazevi pursues the robbers, who succeed in not only shooting at the police but also with funny jokes to shoot random passers-by with machine guns during the chase.

As a result of the raids, all four thugs were caught, and one of them could hardly be saved from an angry mob intending to lynch him. The leader of the gang, who left behind during the chase three corpses and more than twenty injured, gladly poses for reporters. To complete the picture of the violence that has swept over the city, the director inserted into the film a scene with the burning of burnt-out songwriters alive, who did not agree with the fact that the criminal "producers" decided to prostitute her.

• Can Maria Volonte - Pietro Cavallero
• Thomas Milian - Commissioner Bazevi
• Don Bucky - Santa Notarnikola
• Ray Lovelock - Donato Lopez ("Tuccio")
• Ezio Sancrotti - Adriano Rivoletto ("Bartolini")
• Carla Gravina - nympho from Lugano
• Piero Madzarella - Roaldo Piva, disabled
• Pupo de Luca - owner of a stolen car
• Agostina Belli - Hostage Girl
• Ida Meda - wife of Pietro Cavallero
• Margaret Lee is a prostitute

The film, which had a great success in the Italian box office, received two awards " David di Donatello " - for best direction and best producing , and in 1969 - " Silver Ribbon " for best script and nomination in the categories "best direction" and "best actor" (Gian Maria Volonte).

In 1968, the film participated in the competition program of the Berlin Film Festival and the Cannes Film Festival ^[1] , which was closed due to riots in France .

In the same year, the tape received the Italian Golden Globe in the Best Film category, and Gian Maria Volonte in the Best Actor nomination.

The picture is included in the number of so-called “ 100 Italian films that should be preserved ” ( 100 film italiani da salvare ), although critics refer the film that became a model for the bloody Italian thrash thrillers of the 1970s to the category B products ^[2] .

American critics also noted the low quality of this low-budget production ^{[K 1]} , which is more agitated than action and many cynical jokes ^[3] . However, Roger Ebert once noted that such tapes, which grew out of the style of cheap spaghetti westerns , are able to fill the gap that emerged in American cinema after Frank Sinatra’s anti-defamation league (supported by Cosa Nostroy ) banned the image on the screen. Italians gangsters ^[4] .

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