Caliber 9
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Director: Fernando Di Leo
1972 / 102min / DCP
Back on the streets after a stint in the slammer, laconic gangster Ugo (The Conformist’s Gastone Moschin) is targeted for harassment by Rocco (an explosive Mario Adorf), a big shot in a Milanese gang who’s convinced Ugo knows the whereabouts of a missing chunk of lira. Inspired by the short stories of crime fiction writer Giorgio Scerbanenco and hailed as the greatest Italian noir by no less a personage than Quentin Tarantino, the first chapter of Di Leo’s Milieu Trilogy gets maximum pungency from location shooting in Milan’s grottier precincts, its go-for-broke action set-pieces accompanied by the pulsing music of composer Luis Enriquez Bacalov and cult Neapolitan prog act Osanna.
The restoration of Caliber 9 was carried out in 2022 by the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia - Cineteca Nazionale from the negatives made available by Minerva Pictures. To reconstruct the version desired by the director, the title cards were reintegrated, recovered from a copy conserved in the archives of the Cineteca Nazionale.
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