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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.
Why, for murder, terror, extortion, violence and other profitable enterprises! Set in Sicily, this violent crime drama tells the tale of an Italian cop who heads to a small island town to look into the death of a construction supplier.
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. Audio Languages: English. Subtitles: English.
Day of the Owl PG 1968 1h 53m Drama List Reviews A Sicilian crime kingpin uses his considerable influence to stifle an Italian police captain's murder investigation.
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The Day of the Owl is adapted from a book — and you can tell, it's almost literary in comparison to the more action-packed films of its subgenre — but what's interesting is that the book got the Italian public talking about the existence of the mafia and its pervasive presence in society.
