Caliber 9 (Milano Calibro 9) 1972 01 ITA 02 ENG SUB ENG 1080p BluRay x264

Year: 1972
Country: Italy
Director: Fernando Di Leo
Cast: Gastone Moschin, Mario Adorf, Barbara Bouchet, Frank Wolff
IMBD: Link

Language : Two Audiotracks: 1. Italian, 2. English
Subtitles : English





Born in Kiev in 1911 from an Ukraine father and a Roman mother, self-taught, “a former illustrated mag reporter with a Stan Laurel face and the soul of a Padanian-born Chandler,” Scerbanenco (real name Vladimir Scerbanenko) had written all kinds of genre novels—whodunits, romance, spy stories —hiding behind a plethora of pseudonyms. He was a renowned, experienced journalist, as the editor of such popular women’s mags as “Novella” and “Bella,” and was able to “absorb like a sponge the moods, the passional weavings, the love misfortunes and small-time dramas of the confused post–World War II Italy.” In a body of work which numbers more than eighty novels and over a thousand short stories, Scerbanenco’s Milanese crime quadrilogy (Venere Privata, Traditori di tutti, I ragazzi del massacro, I milanesi ammazzano al sabato) which convey the same tones and atmospheres as the short story anthology Milano calibro 9, stands out for its power, complexity and stylistic accomplishment. Like no other before him, Scerbanenco succeeded in exploring and portraying the dark side of Italy after the economical “Boom,” although he used to say about his books: “I simply sum up reality, that’s all.”

The story of Ugo Piazza (Gastone Moschin), a small-time crook who is released from jail, only to find that old acolytes waiting for him because they suspect he stole $300,000 from them, shows the director’s love of
classic American and French film noir: John Huston, Nicholas Ray, and Jean-Pierre Melville.

Even more impressive is how di Leo adapts on screen one of Giorgio Scerbanenco’s short stories, distilling the writer’s universe and making it his own. “When I read Scerbanenco’s books, I realized that we shared the same vision of the world. He was a realist who wrote about petty crooks and small-time criminals,” he stated. Much more so than di Leo’s previous Scerbanenco adaptation, Naked Violence, Caliber 9 preserves the spirit rather than the letter of Scerbanenco’s pages: the film’s celebrated centerpiece—the sequence set in the heart of Milan, piazza Duomo, which follows two couriers exchanging mysterious packets and ending with two simultaneous, unexpected bomb blasts —comes from the short story Stazione Centrale ammazzare subito (“Central Station Kill Immediately”) from the omnibus Milano by Calibre 9: the rest is all di Leo’s.

Milan, the so called “black Milan” as described in Scerbanenco’s books, has never been so impressive: foggy canals, decaying condos, sleazy nightclubs, empty parking lots. Di Leo doesn’t go for sociological notations, but he films Italy’s biggest Northern city with a realism unknown to genre cinema. The stark contrast between ultramodern, stylish apartments and squalid hotel rooms echoes the hiatus between the luxurious headquarters of the big boss, the “American” (Lionel Stander) and the poor, minuscule apartment where the elderly blind Mafia godfather Don Vincenzo (Ivo Garrani) lives with his sidekick, Chino (Philippe Leroy).

Scerbanenco’s characters are taciturn, and Ugo Piazza is no exception. He’s a monolith of a man: cold, imperturbable, with undecipherable icy eyes. It was a brave move to choose for this role an actor such as Gastone Moschin, often seen in comedies such as Pietro Germi’s wonderful The Birds, the Bees and the Italians (Signore & signori, 1966) where he usually played simpletons or awkward types. Di Leo reinvents Moschin’s screen persona, turning him into a sort of Milanese version of Lino Ventura in Melville’s films: his hands in the pockets of his Marine jacket, his eyes fixed on the ground to avoid other people’s stare, walking fast along the canals of Milan, Piazza is a memorably doomed and solitary antihero. Mario Adorf, who plays the obtuse, bovine Rocco Musco, the Americano’s right hand, is precisely the opposite: vulgarly elegant, with greasy hair and an Errol Flynn mustache, he is a subtly caricatured presence (just as the other gangsters, whose features and movements are deformed with twitches and scares) yet a vital one in the film’s economy.

Di Leo plays on the contrast between the imperturbable Moschin and Adorf’s hammy overacting. Rocco loves to make a scene in front of his men, showing off his power: on the contrary, Ugo just keeps a low profile, waiting for his chance.

The bitter irony of Caliber 9 is in the string of coincidences, all of them conspiring for an ending which was written into the characters’ DNA. As events unfold, the game of appearances which the film —and life itself—is built upon, just collapses. Smartness becomes foolishness, love turns into treason, hostility is replaced by respect. (Roberto Curti)

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00:00:00,000-00:08:02,000: 1. Handing It Over {und}
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This report was created by AVInaptic (01-11-2020) on 9-02-2026 21:52:45