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Italy - France 1975 / 35 mm / Color / 120 min. | |||
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In a southern Italian city someone murders a well-known judge. The murder turns out to be the first in a series of murders, and all the victims are judges. Inspector Rogas is dispatched from Rome to investigate. He rejects the hypothesis that the crimes are the work of a Mafia vendetta or a mad criminal. He narrows his suspicions to a pharmacist who had been unfairly convicted of a poisoning years earlier and has now disappeared. But when Rogas reports his findings to his superiors, they reject his conclusion and direct his investigation towards left-wing extremists. But Rogas is convinced that in fact the subsequent killings are being committed by right-wing conspirators seeking to destabilize the government. When he makes an appointment to tell what he knows to a communist official, he himself becomes the target of the conspirators. The entire story is shot through with a terrific sense of menace; corruption is rampant and the paranoia thoroughly justified. |
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| Script: Francesco Rosi, Tonino Guerra, Lino Jannuzzi. Phot.: Pasqualino De Santis. Ed.: Ruggero Mastroianni. Mus.: Piero Piccioni. Cast: Lino Ventura, Fernando Rey, Max von Sydow, Charles Vanel, Tino Carraro, Marcel Bozzuffi, Paolo Bonacelli, Alain Cuny, Maria Carta, Luigi Pistilli, Tina Aumont, Renato Salvatori, Paolo Graziosi. Prod.: Alberto Grimaldi, P.E.A., Rome (Italie) / Les Artistes Associ�s, Paris (France). | |||
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Francesco Rosi |