Mafia
– A Police Officer faces difficulties when investigating a Mafia murder in a small Sicilian town. A bu..
A Police Officer faces difficulties when investigating a Mafia murder in a small Sicilian town. A businessman is murdered for refusing to join a Mafia-controlled group and although he suspects the Mafia are involved he can find no witnesses or evidence, only hostile obstruction by the corrupt local authorities who all deny the existence of the Mafia.
Italian
Damiano Damiani
Ugo Pirro, Damiano Damiani, Leonardo Sciascia (novel)
Claudia Cardinale, Franco Nero, Lee J. Cobb, Tano Cimarosa
Rosa Nicolosi is not the widow of Salvatore Colasberna, the man murdered in the beginning of the movie, but she is in fact the wife of Paolo Nicolosi, the only eyewitness of the murder. Paolo goes missing the same morning as the murder occurs.
5 wins & 2 nominations.