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Flatfoot in Africa

1978 115 min Italian 12
Wubly rating 6.4 IMDb rating 6.2

Inspector Rizzo in Napoli gets a message from a policeman from South Africa who wants to meet him. Immediately before this meeting the South African policeman is killed. Dying he shows Rizzo a picture of his young son Bodo. Rizzo travels to Johannesburg to find out what the policeman was working on and to find Bodo.

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Part of Flatfoot Collection

4 films

Cast

18 people

Steno Director · Giovanni Simonelli Screenplay

United States release June 23, 1978 · Produced in Germany, Italy · Production Laser Films

Production

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Rialto Film

Production

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Laser Films

Production

Germany · Italy

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Languages

Original title

Piedone l'africano

Original language

Italian

Spoken on screen

Italian

Release dates

Italy · March 22, 1978

Theatrical

United States · June 23, 1978

Theatrical

Colombia

September 27, 1979 · Theatrical

Denmark

September 6, 1978 · Theatrical

Finland

February 2, 1979 · Theatrical

Germany

June 23, 1978 · Theatrical

May 8, 2025 · Theatrical · Re-release

Hungary

April 26, 1979 · Theatrical

Netherlands

March 27, 1980 · Theatrical

Norway

October 11, 1978 · Theatrical

Portugal

March 30, 1979 · Theatrical

South Africa

November 14, 1979 · Theatrical

Spain

December 1, 1979 · Theatrical

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