Flat feet in Africa
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| German title | Flat feet in Africa | ||
| Original title | Piedone l'africano | ||
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| Country of production | Italy | ||
| original language | Italian | ||
| Publishing year | 1978 | ||
| length | 99 minutes | ||
| Age rating | FSK 12 | ||
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| Director | Stefano Vanzina | ||
| script |
Adriano Bolzoni Rainer Brandt Giovanni Simonelli Franco Verucci |
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| music |
Guido De Angelis Maurizio De Angelis |
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| camera | Alberto Spagnoli | ||
| cut | Mario Morra | ||
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Flatfoot in Africa (original title: Piedone l'africano ) was the third of four parts of the successful crime film series, which focuses on Detective Inspector Manuele Rizzo - nickname Flatfoot - and his assistant Pedro Caputo.
The film was shot from November 1977 to January 1978 and was released in German cinemas on June 30, 1978. Flatfoot in Africa was awarded the Golden Canvas in Germany .
action
Rizzo meets at the port of Naples with an African who tries to get him sensitive information about a drug smugglers gang. But the informant is shot down from ambush in front of Rizzo. Rizzo nevertheless receives the information from him that diamond dealers from South Africa are involved in drug deals. Rizzo also learns that the informant has a young son in Johannesburg . Rizzo then flies to South Africa.
There he visits his former assistant Caputo, who now works as a valet for the wealthy businessman Smollett. He finally finds Bodo, the informant's son. His attempts to leave the boy in Caputo's care fail because Bodo would rather stay with Rizzo.
On a hunting trip with Smollett's friend Margie, Rizzo meets a man named Spiros, who is a drug and diamond smuggler. Rizzo tricked him into leading him to the mastermind of the gang, Smollett. He is captured by him, but Bodo frees him. The boy also led the police to Smollett's property with a trail of diamonds, which Rizzo turned over the crooks to after he beat them up.
Rizzo also finds out that the smugglers hide diamonds and drugs in the double bottoms of the transport crates of their animals to be shipped all over the world. In the case of predator cages in particular, they assume that nobody will look closely at them.
Caputo finally decides to return to the Naples Police Department. Bodo was supposed to stay in South Africa, but got to Naples as a stowaway on a ship. There Rizzo takes the orphan boy in with him.
criticism
"The third gag and thrashing thriller in the Flatfoot series offers mild, sometimes sentimental entertainment, but at least contains some beautiful nature shots from the Kalahari desert."
“A harmlessly cheerful adventure film. The beefy commissioner Rizzo from Naples (Bud Spencer), also known as flat feet by friends and enemies, is fighting, in the truest sense of the word, in the fight against drug and diamond smugglers across South Africa. Instead of Terence Hill as before, this time a smart six-year-old negro boy is his resourceful helper. There is no smuggler against them. "
German version
Rainer Brandt was responsible for the German dubbed version , who wrote the dialogue book and also directed it. After Wolfgang Hess dubbed Bud Spencer in the first two Flatfoot films , Martin Hirthe can be heard here as Inspector Rizzo. In Germany the film was only dubbed in a version shortened by over 14 minutes compared to the Italian version.
| actor | character | Voice actor |
|---|---|---|
| Bud Spencer | Commissioner Manuele Rizzo | Martin Hirthe |
| Enzo Cannavale | Pedro Caputo | Friedrich W. Building School |
| Werner Pochath | Spiros | Werner Pochath |
| Joe Stewardson | Smollet | Rainer Brandt |
| Carel Trichardt | Captain | Frank Glaubrecht |
| Desmond Thompson | John Desmond | Wolfgang Pampel |
| Baldwyn Dakile (aka "Zulu Boy Bodo") | Bodo | |
| Dagmar Lassander | Margy | Rita Engelmann |
DVD and Blu-ray
In 2005, the German theatrical version was cut by Paramount and released on DVD by 14 minutes . In 2012, Universum released a new edition with improved image quality, which, in addition to the German version, also contained a long version, which was still three minutes shorter than the Italian original. In 2013 the film was released in the “big flat tire box” together with the three other flat tire films on Universum on Blu-ray with HD picture. In addition to the German version, the box now also contained the complete Italian version for the first time.
Trivia
- During the filming in South Africa there was an incident when Bud Spencer wanted to eat together with Bodo actor Baldwyn Dakile in a restaurant in Johannesburg . The boy was denied entry due to apartheid . Spencer then decided not to eat in the restaurant either, but was later informed by the police chief that he would be expelled from the country immediately if this behavior was repeated in the future.
- Bud Spencer was not dubbed in the original version in this film, as in many of his films, but can be heard in his own voice.
- The title song Freedom is interpreted by Guido De Angelis and Maurizio De Angelis under the pseudonym I Charango.
- Since the film was set in South Africa, which was outlawed internationally because of the apartheid prevailing there, the film was not shown in the GDR.
Web links
- Flatfoot in Africa in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Flatfoot in Africa in the German dubbing index
- Comparison of the cut versions FSK 12 - It. TV from Flatfoot in Africa at Schnittberichte.com
Individual evidence
- ^ Flat feet in Africa. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ^ Flatfoot in Africa in the German synchronous file
- ↑ Section report on flat feet in Africa on schnittberichte.com
- ↑ Section report on flat feet in Africa on schnittberichte.com
- ↑ Bud Spencer: My Life, My Films . Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2011. pp. 169 f.
- ↑ Bud Spencer: My Life, My Films . Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2011. p. 163.