Blazing Flowers

{{short description|1978 film}}

{{Infobox film

| name = Blazing Flowers

| image = Blazing Flowers.jpg

| caption =

| director = {{Interlanguage link multi|Gianni Martucci|it}}

| story= Luca Sportelli

| screenplay = Ludovica Marineo
Luca Sportelli
Gianni Martucci

| starring = Marc Porel
George Hilton
Anna Maria Rizzoli
Barbara Magnolfi
Music Gianni Ferrio

| cinematography = Richard Grassetti

| language = Italian

| released = {{Film date|1978|02|05|df=yes}}

| gross = 593,395 million

}}

Blazing Flowers' ({{langx|it|Milano... difendersi o morire}}, literally: "Milan... to defend or to die"), is a 1978 Italian Poliziesco film co-written and directed by Gianni Martucci and starring Marc Porel, George Hilton and Anna Maria Rizzoli.{{cite book|author1=Roberto Chiti |author2=Roberto Poppi |author3=Enrico Lancia |title=Dizionario del cinema italiano: I film|publisher=Gremese, 1991|isbn=8876059695}}{{cite book|last=Roberto Curti|title=Italia odia: il cinema poliziesco italiano|year=2006|publisher=Lindau, 2006|isbn=8871805860}}

Cast

Reception

In Italy, the film was distributed by Lark and it grossed 593,395,110 lire.{{cite book|last1=Roberto Curti|title=Italian Crime Filmography, 1968-1980|date=22 October 2013|publisher=McFarland, 2013|isbn=978-0786469765}}

In his analysis of the film, Roberto Curti heavily criticized it, noting "the film's half-baked plot, filled with clichés worthy of a bad sceneggiata" and "the tone [...] closer to that of a lurid comic book".{{cite book|last1=Roberto Curti|title=Italian Crime Filmography, 1968-1980|date=22 October 2013|publisher=McFarland, 2013|isbn=978-0786469765}}

== See also ==

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