They Call Me Jeeg (2015) They Call Me Jeeg 25 Feb 2016. N/A 2015 112 min Action , Drama , Sci-Fi. 7.1. IMDB: 7.1/10 9,593 votes. Gabriele Mainetti, Simone Spada. Antonia Truppo, Claudio Santamaria, Daniele Trombetti, Francesco Formichetti, Gianluca Di Gennaro, Ilenia Pastorelli, Joel Sy, Luca Marinelli, Maurizio Tesei, Stefano Ambrogi.
2015. Italy. Italian with English subtitles. 112 minutes. After a plunge into Rome’s toxic Tiber River, Enzo (Claudio Santamaria), a porn-addicted petty criminal, finds himself transformed into an indestructible, superhuman strongman. Against his own instincts, he becomes something of an avenging angel: the protector of an emotionally fragile Freaks Out is a 2021 Italian film written and directed by Gabriele Mainetti, known for directing They Call Me Jeeg ("Lo chiamavano Jeeg Robot"). This film however is much different in tone and scope from his previous one: a fairly big-budget historical fantasy epic, featuring four circus freaks trying to survive in a 1943 Rome besieged by Nazis .