Director:
Damiano DamianiGuión:
Ugo PirroCámara:
Tonino Delli ColliMúsica:
Giovanni FuscoReparto:
Claudia Cardinale, Franco Nero, Lee J. Cobb, Tano Cimarosa, Nehemiah Persoff, Serge Reggiani, Vincenzo Falanga, Vincenzo Norvese, Ennio Balbo (más)Streaming (1)
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Based on the Leonardo Sciascia novel of the same title, this story deals with the difficulties facing a northern police officer investigating a Mafia murder in a small Sicilian town in 1961. Salvatore Colasbena, a construction supplier, was murdered and buried under a blanket of tar because he refused to join the Mafia-controlled roadbuilding group. His widow, Rosa, is investigated by the police, but honest Captain Bellodi comes to suspect Mafia boss Don Mariano Arena when he can find no witnesses, no evidence, only hostile obstruction by corrupt government influences... (texto oficial de la distribuidora)
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Damiano Damiani was simply fantastic at making these detective films with social criticism that delved into the mafia-influenced conditions of Italian society in the 1960s and 70s. This film doesn't exactly win you over in the opening half hour and you get a bit lost in the jumble of names, but it gets better and better as the runtime goes on. It's brilliantly directed (it flows by like water), it's critically apt, and the final scene with the potentates on the balcony somehow aptly concludes that the fight with the mafia is futile and perhaps even lost beforehand. Claudia is as beautiful as ever, Franco Nero is boyishly charismatic even at his young age, and Lee J. Cobb accurately captures the character of Don Mariano, whom everyone fears and holds in awe.... there, in Sicily, with its own laws and social hierarchy.
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