LUC MERENDA | Offscreen
Luc Merenda (°1943), a French actor with Italian roots, is one of the best known faces of the poliziotteschi genre. His several collaborations with Sergio Martino include “Torso” and “The Violent Professionals”. He also played the lead in many other films, such as Fernando Di Leo's “Shoot First, Die Later” and Duccio Tessari's “Puzzle”.
TORSO
Sergio Martino pulls out all the stops in this highly stylized, ultra-violent giallo classic about a serial killer who hides behind a ski mask to strangle beautiful young students before slicing them up with a bow saw. The many suspenseful scenes in this scary whodunit will have you gasping for air.
THE VIOLENT PROFESSIONALS
Police inspector Giulio Caneparo (Luc Merenda) takes justice into his own hands to avenge the death of his boss, who was on the trail of a gang of bank robbers. All bets are off and anything goes in this indictment of Italian fascism and political chaos.
CHOPPER SQUAD
In Rome, a cop (Luc Merenda) unwittingly discovers that employees of the Italian Ministry of Defense are being murdered, and their deaths made to look like suicides or accidents. Inspired by the Golpe Borghese, a failed right-wing coup d'état in 1970.