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The Day of the Owl (Italian: Il giorno della civetta, released in the United States as Mafia) is a 1968 Italian–French crime drama film directed by Damiano Damiani, based on the 1961 novel of the same name by Leonardo Sciascia, adapted for the screen by Damiani and Ugo Pirro.
Mafia: Directed by Damiano Damiani. With Claudia Cardinale, Franco Nero, Lee J. Cobb, Tano Cimarosa. The new chief of the Carabinieri in a small Sicilian town must fight corrupt officials, the frightened silence of witnesses and the local Mafia boss to solve a murder.
The Day of the Owl (Italian: Il giorno della civetta [il ˈdʒorno della tʃiˈvetta]) is a crime novel about the Sicilian Mafia by Leonardo Sciascia, finished in 1960 and published in 1961.
A construction truck driver is murdered close to the home of ‘Rosa’. Police captain ‘Bellodi’ investigates, unravelling a web of corruption and silence leading to mafia don ‘Mariano’. A slick, playful, exciting, twisting, compelling, (poliziotteschi-leaning) cat-and-mouse crime drama from Damiano Damiani.
The Day of the Owl stars Franco Nero as a police chief who, while investigating the death of a construction worker, goes up against corrupt officials and a ruthless mafia boss (Lee J. Cobb).
The Day of the Owl. 1968 · 1 hr 49 min. TV-MA. Crime · Drama · Foreign/International. To solve the murder of a construction worker, the new police chief of a Sicilian town is forced to take on the government and a ruthless mob boss. Subtitles: English. Starring: Lee J. Cobb Franco Nero Claudia Cardinale Tano Cimarosa Nehemiah Persoff.
Adapted from the celebrated novel, The Day of the Owl was a prestigious production, it was in the running for best film at the Berlin Film Festival and won numerous Italian awards. A police...
