The Assassin of Rome

{{distinguish|The Assassins of Rome}} {{Infobox film | name = The Assassin of Rome | image = The Assassin of Rome.jpg | caption = | director = Damiano Damiani | writer =Damiano Damiani<br> Fulvio Gicca Palli<br> Enrico Ribulsi | starring = Nino Manfredi<br>Gabriele Lavia | music = Riz Ortolani | cinematography = Marcello Gatti | editing = Nino Baragli | producer =Dino De Laurentiis | distributor = | released = {{Film date|1972}} | runtime = | country = Italy | language = Italian | budget = }} '''''The Assassin of Rome''''' ({{langx|it|Girolimoni, il mostro di Roma}}) is a 1972 Italian historical drama film directed by Damiano Damiani. The film tells, with some historical licenses, the story of Gino Girolimoni, wrongfully accused of a series of child murders that occurred in Rome between 1924 and 1928.<ref>{{cite book|last=Giovanni Ziccardi|title=Il diritto al cinema|publisher=Giuffrè Editore, 2010}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Matteo Balestrieri|title=Vero Come La Finzione|publisher=Springer, 2010}}</ref>

== Cast == *Nino Manfredi as Gino Girolimoni *Gabriele Lavia as Tarquinio Tirabosco * Eleonora Morana as Armanda Tirabosco *Orso Maria Guerrini as Gianni Di Meo * Guido Leontini as Apicella *Mario Carotenuto as Sterbini *Laura De Marchi as The servant *Luciano Catenacci as Benito Mussolini *Arturo Dominici as Jaccarino *Ennio Antonelli as The lover of the mother of 'Biocchetta' *Nello Pazzafini as Fiaccarini

==References== {{Reflist}}

== Further reading == * Damiano Damiani, Gaetano Strazzulla. ''Girolimoni''. Capelli, 1972.

==External links== *{{IMDb title|0068641}}

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