I am the violence

Movie
German title	I am the violence
Original title	Il cinico, l'infame, il violento
Country of production	Italy
original language	Italian
Publishing year	1977
length	100 (German version 95) minutes
Age rating	FSK 18
Rod
Director	Umberto Lenzi
script	Umberto Lenzi Ernesto Gastaldi Dardano Sacchetti
production	Luciano Martino
music	Franco Micalizzi
camera	Federico Zanni
cut	Eugenio Alabiso
occupation
Maurizio Merli : Ex-Commissioner Leonardo Tanzi John Saxon : Frank Di Maggio Renzo Palmer : Commissioner Guido Astalli Tomás Milián : Luigi Maietto, the "Chinese" Gabriella Lepori : Nadia Claudio Undari : Dario (as Robert Hundar ) Bruno Corazzari : Ettore Marco Guglielmi : Lawyer Marchetti Gabriella Giorgelli : Maria Guido Alberti : Antiquarian Tanzi Brigitte Petronio : Linda Esposito Gianfilippo Carcano : The "Professor" Gianni Musy : Nicola Proietti

I am the violence (original title: Il cinico, l'infame, il violento ) is an Italian crime film directed by Umberto Lenzi .

action

Luigi Maietto, who is called Chinese, has escaped from prison and, together with accomplices, perpetrates an assassination attempt on ex-Commissioner Tanzi, to whom he owes his life imprisonment. He had resigned in protest against his superiors, who disapproved of his rustic investigative methods, and had moved from Rome to Milan. Tanzi survived, had himself declared dead and now in turn hunted down the criminal who has now teamed up (back in Rome) with the powerful Italian-American gang boss Di Maggio. Tanzi succeeds in creating strife between the gangs of the two allies; after Maietto realizes that Tanzi is still alive, he tries again to get rid of him. In the bloody clashes, Di Maggio is killed; Tanzi is finally able to catch and shoot Maietto on foot after his escape.

criticism

The work was largely judged negatively. The Lexicon of International Films notes an "action film riddled with sadistic brutality." the Italian critics particularly criticized Merli's mask-like interpretation in the role of commissioner. SC said that director Lenzi produced "an average product with a happy ending as a reward using the usual formulas of the avenger film, but the mechanisms of the story are old and predictable, there is a lack of tension and the film has neither salt nor pepper."

background

The filming locations were Milan , Rome and Chiasso . The Italian gross profit was 144 million lire .

The German-language premiere was on video.

Web links

• The violence I'm in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• The film at comingsoon.it
• Selection of Italian reviews on pollanetsquad.it

Individual evidence

1. ^ Entry of the film at the Archivio del Cinema Italiano
2. ↑ I am violence in the lexicon of international film
3. ^ Massimo Bertarelli, in Il Giornale of May 23, 2003
4. ↑ in: La Stampa of April 13, 1977
5. ^ Roberto Poppi, Mario Pecorari: Dizionario del Cinema italiano. I film dal 1970 al 1979. Vol. 4, tomo 1, AL. Rom, Gremese, 1996, pp. 173/174