Piedone l'africano (Flatfoot in Africa)
Directed by	Steno
Written by	Steno Giovanni Simonelli Franco Verucci
Produced by	Laser Rialto Film
Starring	Bud Spencer Enzo Cannavale Dagmar Lassander
Cinematography	Alberto Spagnoli
Edited by	Mario Morra
Music by	Guido & Maurizio De Angelis
Distributed by	Titanus Medusa Film
Release date	1978 (1978)
Running time	108 minutes
Countries	Italy South Africa
Language	Italian

Piedone l'africano (internationally released asFlatfoot in Africa,Knock-Out Cop andThe K.O. Cop) is a 1978Italian "poliziottesco"-comedy film directed bySteno and starringBud Spencer. It is the third and penultimate chapter in the "Flatfoot" film series.It is preceded byFlatfoot andFlatfoot in Hong Kong and followed byFlatfoot in Egypt^[1][2][3]

A trail of illicit diamonds takes Flatfoot and his acquaintance,Naples police commissioner Caputo, fromJohannesburg toSwakopmund in the hopes of breaking up aSouth African smuggling ring. They are joined by Bodo, an African child, and confounded in their search by corrupt mining officials and an antagonistic inspector in the South-West African police.

• Bud Spencer as Insp. 'Flatfoot' Rizzo
• Enzo Cannavale as Caputo
• Werner Pochath as Spiros
• Joe Stewardson as Smollet
• Carel Trichardt as captain Muller
• Dagmar Lassander as Margy Connors
• Desmond Thompson as Inspector Desmond
• Baldwin Dakile as Bodo
• Antonio Allocca
• Giovanni Cianfriglia

• During filming in South Africa, there was an incident when Bud Spencer wanted to eat together with black actor Baldwyn Dakile, who played Bodo, in a restaurant in Johannesburg. The boy was denied entry due toapartheid. Spencer then decided not to eat in the restaurant either, but was later informed by the police chief that he would be expelled from the country immediately if this behavior was repeated in the future.^[4]

• Bud Spencer was not dubbed in the original version in this film, as in many of his films, but can be heard in his own voice.

• The title songFreedom is interpreted by Guido De Angelis and Maurizio De Angelis under the pseudonym I Charango.

• Since the film was set in South Africa, which was ostracized internationally because of the apartheid prevailing there, the film was not shown in theGDR.

• Flatfoot in Africa atIMDb

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