Milonga (film)

Milonga
Directed by	Emidio Greco
Written by	Paolo Breccia Emidio Greco
Produced by	Franco Committeri Pio Angeletti Adriano De Micheli
Starring	Giancarlo Giannini Claudia Pandolfi
Cinematography	Marco Sperduti
Music by	Luis Bacalov
Release date	1999 (1999)
Running time	89 minutes
Language	Italian

Milonga (translation: Tango) is a 1999 Italian thriller film co-written and directed by Emidio Greco.[1] For his performance Giancarlo Giannini won the Globo d'oro for best actor.[2]

Plot

In one of the most central squares of Rome, Piazza Barberini, the famous TV star Aldo Ruggeri is killed in broad daylight. The commissioner, accompanied by agent Ginevra Scapuzzo, arrives on the spot to start the investigation. After various vicissitudes the commissioner, thanks to a tango listened to on the radio, will be able to connect the facts by discovering the killers. Going to Milonga, that is the place where the tango is danced, he will find the two killers, a man and a woman. When the music ends, in a firefight, the commissioner kills the man while the girl manages to escape.

Cast

• Giancarlo Giannini: Inspector
• Claudia Pandolfi: Scapuzzo
• Carlo Cecchi: "Character A"
• Irene Ferri: Killer woman
• Gianni Sperti: Killer man
• Yvonne Sciò: Marlene
• Vanessa Gravina: Rossella

See also

• List of Italian films of 1999

References

1. Roberto Chiti; Enrico Lancia; Roberto Poppi. Dizionario del cinema italiano: I Film. Gremese Editore, 2002. ISBN 8884401372.
2. Franco Montini (1999-06-30). "Bernardo Bertolucci il più amato all' estero". La Repubblica. Retrieved 23 March 2014.

External links

• Milonga at IMDb