Il commissario di ferro

{{Infobox film | name = Il commissario di ferro | image = Il commissario di ferro.jpg | alt = | caption = | native_name =  | director = Stelvio Massi | producer = {{plainlist|* Roberto Bessi * Renato Angiolini{{sfn|Curti|2013|p=238}}}} | screenplay = Roberto Gianviti{{sfn|Curti|2013|p=238}} | story = Roberto Gianviti{{sfn|Curti|2013|p=238}} | based_on =  | starring = {{plainlist|* Maurizio Merli * Janet Agren * Ettore Manni * Chris Avram}} | music = Lallo Gori{{sfn|Curti|2013|p=238}} | cinematography = Sergio Rubini{{sfn|Curti|2013|p=238}} | editing = Mauro Bonanni{{sfn|Curti|2013|p=238}} | studio = Belma Cinematografica{{sfn|Curti|2013|p=238}} | distributor = Variety Distribution | released = {{Film date|df=yes|1978|12|7|Italy}} | runtime = 85 minutes{{sfn|Curti|2013|p=238}} | country = Italy{{sfn|Curti|2013|p=238}} | language = Italian | budget = | gross = ₤847,768 million }} ''''' Il commissario di ferro''''' ({{translation|The Iron Commissioner}} is a 1978 Italian ''poliziottesco'' film directed by Stelvio Massi.<ref>{{cite book|last=Roberto Curti|title=Italia odia: il cinema poliziesco italiano|publisher=Lindau, 2006}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Enrico Lancia, Fabio Melelli|title=Spionaggio, avventura, eroi moderni|year=2005|publisher=Gremese, 2005|isbn=8884403707}}</ref>{{sfn|Curti|2013|p=238}}

==Plot == Commissioner Mauro Mariani is known for his severity towards criminals and for his habit of acting on his own, which cost him the transition from Dr. Crivelli's mobile team to a simple neighborhood police station, where he can assist him. it's Brigadier Ingravallo.

One day, while Mariani is with his wife Vera and his son Claudio, from whom he usually lives separated, a boy named Sergio Conforti bursts into his office and, holding an officer under the gun, forces him to call the absent commissioner because he wants to kill, considering him guilty of his father's suicide, arrested by Mariani two years earlier. The commissioner finds out about it when Vera and Claudio, having gone to the office to wait for him, end up in the hands of Conforti.

The boy, in a delirium of revenge, takes the child with him and later telephones the inspector asking him to pick him up where and when he knows. Initially Mariani does not understand the message; then, reconstructing the arrest of Sergio's father, he ends up remembering. He is forced to evade the surveillance of Crivelli and, arriving near a railway yard, is forced to face Sergio: he will be able to neutralize him and, even if wounded, to save his son.

== Cast == *Maurizio Merli as Commissioner Mauro Mariani *Janet Agren as Vera Mariani *Ettore Manni as Sergeant Ingravallo *Chris Avram as Commissioner Capo Crivelli *Mariangela Giordano as Mrs. Parolini *Enzo Fiermonte as The Engineer *Elisa Mainardi as Concierge

==Production== Maurizio Merli later described the film as "a movie made out of nothing" and that the director Stelvio Massi was not happy with the results.{{sfn|Curti|2013|p=238}} Merli stated that half way through production the producers went on set and said there was no money left and they had to complete production quickly.{{sfn|Curti|2013|p=238}}

==Release== ''Il comissario di ferro'' was distributed theatrically in Italy by Belma on 7 December 1978.{{sfn|Curti|2013|p=238}} The film grossed a total of 847,768,660 Italian lire.{{sfn|Curti|2013|p=238}} Unlike Massi's other film of the period, the film was never dubbed into English for foreign markets.{{sfn|Curti|2013|p=230}}

== See also == * List of Italian films of 1978

==Notes== {{Reflist}}

===References=== {{Refbegin}} * {{cite book |last=Curti |first=Roberto |title=Italian Crime Filmography, 1968-1980 |publisher=McFarland |isbn=978-0786469765 |year=2013 }} {{Refend}}

==External links== *{{imdb title|0077363}} *[https://www.varietydistribution.it/en/catalogue/cop-of-iron/ ''Il commissario di ferro''] at Variety Distribution

{{DEFAULTSORT:commissario di ferro, Il}} Category:1978 films Category:Poliziotteschi films Category:Films directed by Stelvio Massi Category:Films scored by Lallo Gori Category:1978 Italian-language films Category:1978 Italian films