The 1970s boxing exposé so dangerous, someone had to make it a movie.
"Gli angeli dalle mani bendate" a docu-film exploring fraud in the sport of boxing. The film was directed in 1975 by Oscar Brazzi and starred his brother Rossano Brazzi in the role of a journalist who boldly investigates the seedy underbelly of the boxing world.
Direction
Brazzi brothers turning family collaboration into muckraking cinema.
Practical Effects
Real boxing world access—this got made because someone was scared.
Director
Oscar Brazzi
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Rossano Brazzi was primarily known as a romantic lead in Hollywood—this was his shocking pivot to investigative journalism on screen.
1970s Italian boxing was notoriously mob-influenced; this film emerged when speaking out could genuinely end careers—or lives.
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