Acting
Volonté's revolutionary intensity could ignite actual revolutions.
Direction
Lizzani shoots Rome like a pressure cooker about to blow.
Writing
Cops and robbers both drowning in systemic rot.
Director
Carlo Lizzani
Gian Maria Volonté
Piero Cavallero
Don Backy
Sante Notarnicola
Tomas Milian
Commissioner Basevi
Ray Lovelock
Donato 'Tuccio' Lopez
Margaret Lee
Prostitute
Carla Gravina
Anna
Piero Mazzarella
Piva
Ezio Sancrotti
Adriano Rovoletto 'Bartolini'
Laura Solari
Tuccio's Mother
Pietro Martellanza
The Protector
Ida Meda
Moglie di Piero
Giovanni Ivan Scratuglia
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Released during Italy's 'Years of Lead' — actual anarchist violence made this feel like documentary, not fiction.
Volonté was so committed to leftist politics he refused roles that didn't align with his beliefs; this was basically his manifesto.
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