They Call Me Jeeg Robot
– Enzo Ceccotti comes into contact with a radioactive substance, then accidently discovers he has supe..
Enzo Ceccotti comes into contact with a radioactive substance, then accidently discovers he has superpowers. A touchy, navel-gazing introvert, he’s sure his new capabilities will do wonders for his life of crime, but that all changes when he meets Alessia, who’s convinced he’s the hero from the famous Japanese comic strip, Steel Jeeg Robot.
25 Feb 2016
Italian
Gabriele Mainetti
Nicola Guaglianone (story), Nicola Guaglianone (screenplay), Menotti (screenplay)
Claudio Santamaria, Luca Marinelli, Ilenia Pastorelli, Stefano Ambrogi
The film is a strange and anti-hero transposition of a very popular animated manga cartoon in the 80's called Steel Jeeg. Here, a young outlaw (Enzo) is somehow affected by radioactive waste in the Tiber waters in Rome. He subsequently finds out he has gained super powers and interprets them as a reward for never having managed to enter the criminal world that counts. The inside joke reveals itself when Enzo meets Alessia, who believes the charming hero is the personification of the hero in the cartoon she used to watch.
16 wins & 26 nominations.
RAI Cinema