Blood And Diamonds

	Blood And Diamonds ''Blood and Diamonds'' ( it, Diamanti sporchi di sangue) is a 1978 Italian noir-poliziottesco film directed by Fernando di Leo. Cast Claudio Cassinelli: Guido Mauri Martin Balsam: Rizzo Barbara Bouchet: Lisa Pier Paolo Capponi: Tony Olga Karlatos: Maria Vittorio Caprioli: commissioner Production The original title for the film was ''Roma calibro 9'' (). The film is very similar to Di Leo's earlier film ''Caliber 9'', with Italian film historian and critic Roberto Curti describing it as "a reversal of ''Caliber 9''" with the relationships in the film being contrary to each other. The cast initially intended to include Franco Gasparri, fresh from the success of the ''Mark il poliziotto'' film series, in the main role of Guido Mauri. Release ''Blood and Diamonds'' premiered in Rome on 17 March 1978. The film was distributed by Titanus in Italy, the day after the kidnapping of Aldo Moro which led to the film grossing only 259,502,900 Italian lira. See also * List of It ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Fernando Di Leo Fernando Di Leo (11 January 1932 – 2 December 2003) was an Italian film director and script writer. He made 17 films as a director and about 50 scripts from 1964 to 1985. Biography Fernando Di Leo was born on 11 January 1932 in San Ferdinando di Puglia. After briefly working in a Rome's film school Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia, di Leo made his debut as a director as part of the omnibus comedy ''Gli eroi di ieri, oggi, domani'' with his episode titled ''Un posto in paradiso'' (). Following this Di Leo wrote several scripts for Westerns, often uncredited. This included work on ''A Fistful of Dollars'' and '' For a Few Dollars More''. Some of his Westerns had uncredited literary sources, such as '' Days of Vengeance'' which as loosely based on Alexandre Dumas' '' The Count of Monte Cristo''. Di Leo was a fan of '' film noir'' and wanted to make an Italian version of these films. Among his first efforts was the script for Mino Guerrini's '' Date for a Murder'' based on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Olga Karlatos Olga Karlatos ( el, Όλγα Καρλάτου; born Olga Vlassopulos, April 20, 1945) is a retired Greek actress and Bermudian lawyer, known primarily for performing in Italian horror cinema. Career Between the end of the sixties and the early seventies, Karlatos had a short career as a singer, recording an EP and some singles in French and Italian, including the theme song of the drama '' Eneide'' of which she starred as Dido, the legendary queen of Carthage. In 1975 she took part in the film '' My Friends'', directed by Mario Monicelli, in which he played Donatella, the unhappy wife of the surgeon Alfeo Sassaroli. During the eighties she participated in the film of Mauro Bolognini ''The Lady of the Camellias'' (1981), with Isabelle Huppert, she later played the starring role in Lucio Fulci giallo film '' Murder Rock'' (1984), a small part in the film of Sergio Leone '' Once Upon A Time In America'' (1984), and the film musical '' Purple Rain'' (1984) with Prince, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	1978 Crime Films Events January * January 1 – Air India Flight 855, a Boeing 747 passenger jet, crashes off the coast of Bombay, killing 213. * January 5 – Bülent Ecevit, of Republican People's Party, CHP, forms the new government of Turkey (42nd government). * January 6 – The Holy Crown of Hungary (also known as Stephen of Hungary Crown) is returned to Hungary from the United States, where it was held since World War II. * January 10 – Pedro Joaquín Chamorro Cardenal, a critic of the Nicaraguan government, is assassinated; riots erupt against Anastasio Somoza Debayle, Somoza's government. * January 18 – The European Court of Human Rights finds the British government guilty of mistreating prisoners in Northern Ireland, but not guilty of torture. * January 22 – Ethiopia declares the ambassador of West Germany ''persona non grata''. * January 24 Soviet Union, Soviet satellite Kosmos 954 burns up in Earth's atmosphere, scattering debris over Canada's Northwest Territories. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]