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They Call Me Jeeg (Italian: Lo chiamavano Jeeg Robot) is a 2015 Italian sci-fi action film directed by Gabriele Mainetti and starring Claudio Santamaria in the lead role. The film is a strange and anti-hero transposition of a very popular animated manga cartoon in the 80's called Steel Jeeg. Here, a young outlaw (Enzo) is somehow affected by radioactive waste in the Tiber waters in Rome. He subsequently finds out he has gained super powers and interprets them as a reward for never having managed to enter the criminal world that counts. The inside joke reveals itself when Enzo meets Alessia (Ilenia Pastorelli), who believes the charming hero is the personification of the hero in the cartoon she used to watch. Enzo, at first lonely and misanthropic, follows a path of redemption and uses the superpowers to chase down a crazy gangster called "The gypsy" (Luca Marinelli).

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