Convoy busters
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Convoy busters |
| Original title | Un poliziotto scomodo |
| Country of production | Italy |
| original language | Italian |
| Publishing year | 1978 |
| length | 99 (German v. 87) minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 18 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Stelvio Massi |
| script |
Igino Capone Teodoro Agrimi Stelvio Massi |
| music | Stelvio Cipriani |
| camera | Sergio Rubini |
| cut | Mauro Bonanni |
| occupation | |
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Convoy Busters (original title: Un poliziotto scomodo ) is an Italian crime film produced in 1978 , which Stelvio Massi filmed with Maurizio Merli in the lead role. In Germany the film was released directly on video.
action
Commissioner Olmi is known in Rome for his harsh methods and incorruptibility. While investigating the death of the young people Maria and Augusto, he comes across Loredana, whom he forces to testify. It turns out that she covers the missteps of her son Marcello. Also involved is Degan, chairman of the Dogana di Fiumicino , who also earns his living by illegally trading diamonds. For lack of evidence, Olmi has to abandon his investigation. However, the criminals must - an attempt to assassinate Olmi failed - relocate their activities abroad.
A little later, Olmi investigates the traces of an arms dealers' ring that operates from a transport company. Sensibly disturbed in their criminal activities, the gangsters take Olmi's mistress Anna, a teacher, and some students hostage. Single-handedly and against all regulations, Olmi enters the building, kills all the gangsters and frees the hostages.
criticism
The lexicon of international film called the film “glorifying violence” and found it “amateurish” staged and played. In the reference work for the Italian police film The Terror Directs, the film was praised as "carefully staged" and praised as an entertaining, above-average film. However, the film is staged on the verge of satire.
The Italian criticism was much more positive: Segnalazioni Cinematografiche criticized the clear division of the plot, but praised the dynamic direction and the appealing performance, and V. Spiga even wrote that in Stelvio Massi someone had found himself who renewed the crime genre by using stylistic Borrowing from Italian westerns and enriching them with their violence and typology as well as the quick editing rhythms borrowed from American films and the show values. He came to the conclusion: The best film by Massi.
Web links
- Convoy Busters in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The film at comingsoon.it (Italian)
Individual evidence
- ^ Convoy Busters. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- Jump up ↑ Terror is directed - the Italian gangster and police film by Michael Cholewa and Karsten Thurau, p. 41, 2nd edition 2008, ISBN 978-3-931608-91-0
- ↑ Segnalazioni Cinematografiche Vol. 860, 1979
- ^ V. Spiga, in: Il Resto del Carlino , February 3, 1979