The Rebel (1980)
"Poliziotti solitudine e rabbia" or "Ein Mann namens Venedig" (A Man called Venice), as it was called in Germany, is an Italian-German crime drama co-production from 1979, filmed mainly in the snowy winter of bleak West-Berlin. Italian cop Nick, played by gangster movie veteran Maurizio Merli, goes to Berlin to find the head of an International European blackmailing gang who has murdered several people. He investigates undercover as a contract killer for the gangsters, but of course becomes immediately the target of his enemies and has to fight hard to save his life...
Director: Stelvio Massi
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Maurizio Merli as Nick Rossi |
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Arthur Brauss as Klaus Beitz |
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Francisco Rabal as Tony |
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Ottaviano Dell'Acqua as |
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Bobby Rhodes as |
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Jutta Speidel as Vivien |
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Buddy Elias as |
| Directing | Stelvio Massi | Director |
| Sound | Stelvio Cipriani | Music |
| Crew | Pier Luigi Santi | Cinematography |