The Milieu Trilogy: Caliber 9 (1972) 4K Restoration
Director: Fernando Di Leo Run Time: 102 min. Rating: NR Release Year: 1972 Language: Italian
Starring: Barbara Bouchet, Frank Wolff, Gastone Moschin, Luigi Pistilli, Mario Adorf
Country: Italy
Language: Italian
The Milieu Trilogy consists of three classic crime films by Di Leo—Caliber 9 (1972), The Italian Connection (1972), and The Boss (1973). These can be easily viewed as stand alone films, or all together. See these restorations on screen at the Film Center this November!
About the film:
Just out of prison, ex-con Ugo Piazza meets his former employer, a psychopathic gangster Rocco who enjoys sick violence and torture. Both the gangsters and the police believe Ugo has hidden $300,000 that should have gone to an American drug syndicate boss.
“I am a huge fan of Italian gangster movies… And Fernando Di Leo is, without a doubt, the master of this genre.”
—Quentin Tarantino
About the filmmaker:
Fernando Di Leo was a prolific filmmaker who explored the political extremism and mafia corruption in Italy during the 1970’s. Master of garish, intricately plotted, ultra-violent stories about pimps and petty gangsters, Di Leo has perfected the genre with an uncanny accuracy. Di Leo’s films demonstrate the degradation of the working classes and how the mafia corrupted them. Though he slipped out of public consciousness after his death in 2003, his works have been revived and shown at the Tate Modern in London and The Venice Film Festival where Quentin Tarantino admitted that Di Leo truly inspired him to make gangster films.
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