''Blood and Diamonds'' ( it, Diamanti sporchi di sangue) is a 1978
Italian
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noir-
poliziottesco
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film
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directed by
Fernando di Leo
Fernando Di Leo (11 January 1932 – 2 December 2003) was an Italian film director and screenwriter, 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 ...
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Cast
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Claudio Cassinelli
Claudio Cassinelli (13 September 1938 – 13 July 1985) was an Italian film, stage and television actor.
Life and career
Born in Bologna to Giuseppina Tafani and Antonio Cassinelli, a well known opera singer, he had two sisters, Paola Cr ...
: Guido Mauri
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Martin Balsam
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: Rizzo
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Barbara Bouchet
Barbara Bouchet (born Bärbel Gutscher; 15 August 1943)
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: Lisa
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Pier Paolo Capponi
Pier Paolo Capponi (9 June 1938 – 15 February 2018) was an Italian actor and screenwriter.
Life and career
Born in Subiaco, after his studies Capponi attended a theater school and later was chosen by director Vittorio De Seta for an import ...
: Tony
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Olga Karlatos
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Career
Between the end of the sixties and the e ...
: Maria
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Vittorio Caprioli
Vittorio Caprioli (15 August 1921 – 2 October 1989) was an Italian actor, film director and screenwriter. He appeared in 109 films between 1946 and 1990, mostly in French productions.
Biography
Caprioli was born in Naples. Having graduated fr ...
: 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
''Caliber 9'' ( it, Milano calibro 9, lit=Milan caliber 9; also released as ''The Contract'') is a 1972 Italian noir-poliziottesco film written and directed by Fernando Di Leo and starring Gastone Moschin, Mario Adorf, Barbara Bouchet, Philippe L ...
'', 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
Franco Gasparri (31 October 1948 – 28 March 1999) was an Italian actor.
Born Gianfranco Gasparri in Senigallia, the son of the painter and film poster artist Rodolfo, Gasparri started his career as a child actor, appearing in several pe ...
, fresh from the success of the ''
Mark il poliziotto
''Mark il poliziotto'' (internationally released as ''Mark of the Cop'', ''Blood, Sweat and Fear'' and ''Mark the Narc'') is an Italian poliziottesco film directed in 1975 by Stelvio Massi. This film obtained a great commercial success and gene ...
'' 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
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Lom ...
in Italy, the day after the kidnapping of
Aldo Moro
Aldo Romeo Luigi Moro (; 23 September 1916 – 9 May 1978) was an Italian statesman and a prominent member of the Christian Democracy (DC). He served as prime minister of Italy from December 1963 to June 1968 and then from November 1974 to July ...
which led to the film grossing only 259,502,900
Italian lira
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.
See also
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List of Italian films of 1978
A list of films produced in Italy in 1978 (see 1978 in film):
See also
* 1978 in Italian television
References Footnotes
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External linksItalian films of 1978at the Internet Movie Database
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1978 films
Films directed by Fernando Di Leo
Poliziotteschi films
1978 crime films
Films scored by Luis Bacalov
1970s Italian films
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