WAKE UP AND KILL

In the 1960s, Luciano Lutring committed more than 100 real-life armed robberies in Italy and on the French Riviera. To the media, he was the “machine gun soloist”, a name he’d earned by keeping his weapon in a violin case. To the public, he was a folk hero who only targeted the wealthy, stealing more than one-hundred million dollars during his criminal career. WAKE UP AND KILL was the first feature to explore Lutring’s story, and it was filmed mere months after his arrest. Scored by Ennio Morricone and penned by the future screenwriter of INVESTIGATION OF A CITIZEN ABOVE SUSPICION, WAKE UP AND KILL’s true-crime thrills serve as an enthralling precursor for the first wave of Italian "poliziotteschi" movies just a few years later.