Lo chiamavano Jeeg Robot

Gabriele Mainetti

Lo chiamavano Jeeg Robot They Call Me Jeeg [videorecording]= They Call Me Jeeg Gabriele Mainetti - Italy Goon Films Rai Cinema Ministero dei Beni e delle Attività Culturali e del Turismo (MiBACT) 2015 - 1 videodisc (ca. 118 min.) sound, color. 4 3/4 in.

From case cover:
Enzo, an ex-con from the poor outskirts of Rome, puts his newfound superpowers to use furthering his career as a delinquent, a fact which makes the local crime bosses far from happy. When he falls in love with Alessia, an unstable girl who brightens her dark world with elements from a Japanese anime, Jeeg, Enzo learns the value of helping others. But what price must he pay to become a hero?

From IMDb:
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.


DVD video; Dolby Digital 5.1, 2.0; surround, stereo; NTSC; Regions 0; 16:9 widescreen.


Italian audio. Optional English subtitles.

PN1997 / .C453 2016