The Beast is an Italian

Cinema of Italy

The history of Italian cinema began just a few months after the Lumière brothers had patented their Cinematographe, when Pope Leo XIII was filmed for a few seconds in the act of blessing the camera.-Early years:...

 Drama film

Drama film

A drama film is a film genre that depends mostly on in-depth development of realistic characters dealing with emotional themes. Dramatic themes such as alcoholism, drug addiction, infidelity, moral dilemmas, racial prejudice, religious intolerance, poverty, class divisions, violence against women...

 directed by Sergio Corbucci

Sergio Corbucci

Sergio Corbucci was an Italian film director. He is best known for his very violent yet intelligent spaghetti westerns...

 and stars Gabriella Giorgelli

Gabriella Giorgelli

Gabriella Giorgelli is an Italian film actress. She appeared in 70 films between 1962 and 1998. She also appeared in many photo comics including Sadistik and is interviewed in the new film The Diabolikal Super-Kriminal....

, Michel Constantin

Michel Constantin

Michel Constantin was a French film actor.-Biography:Born to a Russian father and a Polish mother in Billancourt , Constantin made his first film appearance in 1956. His first credited role was in the prison breakout drama Le Trou in 1960.-External links:...

 and Giancarlo Giannini

Giancarlo Giannini

Giancarlo Giannini is an Italian actor and dubber.Giannini was born La Spezia, Liguria, Italy. He studied at the Accademia Nazionale d'Arte Drammatica in Rome, and made his film debut in a small part in Fango sulla metropoli in 1965...

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Plot

A Lombardy trucker with 20 years of trade on the back, see you foisted as the second driver a Sicilian much younger men, at first the two are struggling to tie: why so much is rough and taciturn. Their big beast a large truck to transport international wares leading them on the streets of Europe, are friendship between both was born between and it rules sincere harmony. The fellows gathered the savings and signing a lot of bills, on the first trip from owners in Germany to load back comes in trouble with a shady individual police. In problems Sandro and Nino become to dare losing the truck, it will nevertheless be safe and sound from bad adventure, the friends goes an unchanged confidence of his future.

Cast

• Giancarlo Giannini
  Giancarlo Giannini
  Giancarlo Giannini is an Italian actor and dubber.Giannini was born La Spezia, Liguria, Italy. He studied at the Accademia Nazionale d'Arte Drammatica in Rome, and made his film debut in a small part in Fango sulla metropoli in 1965...
  
   as Nino Patrovita
• Michel Constantin
  Michel Constantin
  Michel Constantin was a French film actor.-Biography:Born to a Russian father and a Polish mother in Billancourt , Constantin made his first film appearance in 1956. His first credited role was in the prison breakout drama Le Trou in 1960.-External links:...
  
   as Sandro Colautti
• Giuseppe Maffioli as Super Shell
• Giuliana Calandra as Amalia
• Dalila Di Lazzaro as Magda
• Enzo Fiermonte
  Enzo Fiermonte
  Enzo Fiermonte , sometimes credited as William Bird, was a boxer and actor. Fiermonte was born on July 17, 1908 in Bari, Puglia, Italy. He married Madeleine Astor on November 27, 1933 in New York City, but was divorced on June 11, 1938. In his early life he was a boxer, but later became a film actor...
  
   as Matteo Zaghi
• Jole Fierro
• Philippe Hersent as Owner of CISA Car Company
• Carlo Gaddi as Camorrista
• Gabriella Giorgelli
  Gabriella Giorgelli
  Gabriella Giorgelli is an Italian film actress. She appeared in 70 films between 1962 and 1998. She also appeared in many photo comics including Sadistik and is interviewed in the new film The Diabolikal Super-Kriminal....
  
   as Zoe
• Attilio Duse as Truck driver
• Anna Mazzamauro as Friend of Amalia
• Giorgio Trestini as Andrea
• Imma Piro as Lella Colautti
• Franco Angrisano as Mafioso
• Romano Puppo as Dutch Driver
• Franca Scagnetti
  Franca Scagnetti
  Franca Scagnetti was an Italian film actress. She appeared in over 80 films between 1969 and 1999.She was born and died in Rome, Italy.-Selected filmography:* The Balloon Vendor...
  
   as Receptionist
• Sergio Testori as Dutchman

Release

The film premiered on 20 November 1974 in Paris

Paris

Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...

 and screened in West Germany

West Germany

West Germany is the common English, but not official, name for the Federal Republic of Germany or FRG in the period between its creation in May 1949 to German reunification on 3 October 1990....

on 14 February 1975 as Die Cleveren Zwei with an Warner-Columbia Filmverleih distribution.

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