Directed by:
Damiano DamianiScreenplay:
Damiano DamianiCinematography:
Mario VulpianiComposer:
Riz OrtolaniCast:
Franco Nero, Françoise Fabian, Pierluigi Aprà, Damiano Damiani, Giorgio Cerioni, Claudio Nicastro, Tano Cimarosa, Renzo Palmer, Luciano Catenacci (more)Plots(1)
Franco Nero plays filmmaker Giacomo Solaris, whose latest film features a judge corrupted by the mafia and who is later killed. The real judge the character is based on seizes the film but is later found murdered. Feeling a degree of responsibility, Solaris investigates through his police and mafia advisors, but as the assassinations increase around him, will he reach the source of the conspiracy? Full of twists and a fascinating meta-commentary on cinema that derives from a highly personal approach to the subject matter inspired by real-life events, director Damiano Damiani points the camera at himself and the genre in this fascinating exploration of the social impact of mafia violence, a fitting end to this survey of Damiani’s Cosa Nostra. (Radiance Films)
(more)Cast
Franco Nero
Italy
Best movies:
Django Unchained (2012)
Die Hard 2 (1990)
The Case Is Closed, Forget It (1971)
Françoise Fabian
Algeria
Best movies:
Happy New Year (1973)
Belle de Jour (1967)
What's in a Name (2012)
Pierluigi Aprà
Italy
Best movies:
The Most Beautiful Wife (1970)
Machine Gun McCain (1969)
How to Kill a Judge (1975)
Damiano Damiani
Italy
Best movies:
The Case Is Closed, Forget It (1971)
How to Kill a Judge (1975)
A Bullet for the General (1967)
Giorgio Cerioni
Best movies:
I Am Afraid (1977)
The Desert of the Tartars (1976)
Bread and Chocolate (1973)
Claudio Nicastro
Italy
Best movies:
The Case Is Closed, Forget It (1971)
Silent Action (1975)
Tough Ones (1976)
Tano Cimarosa
Italy
Best movies:
Cinema Paradiso (1988)
A Pure Formality (1994)
The Most Beautiful Wife (1970)
Renzo Palmer
Italy
Best movies:
The Life of Verdi (1982) (series)
The Big Racket (1976)
The Family (1987)
Luciano Catenacci
Italy
Best movies:
Odds and Evens (1978)
Confessions of a Police Captain (1971)
Brothers Till We Die (1978)
Elio Zamuto
Italy
Best movies:
The Octopus (1984) (series)
Death Dealers (1976)
Shoot First, Die Later (1974)
Eva Czemerys
German Empire
Best movies:
How to Kill a Judge (1975)
Escape from the Bronx (1983)
The Killer Reserved Nine Seats (1974)
Vincenzo Norvese
Best movies:
Confessions of a Police Captain (1971)
A Fistful of Dynamite (1971)
The Day of the Owl (1968)
Claudio Gora
Italy
Best movies:
The Easy Life (1962)
Confessions of a Police Captain (1971)
The Octopus (1984) (series)
Artemio Antonini
Italy
Best movies:
They Call Me Trinity (1970)
Life Is Tough, Eh Providence? (1972)
Operazione poker (1966)
Marco Guglielmi
Italy
Best movies:
Pensione Edelweiss (1958)
Family Diary (1962)
You Die... But I Live (1967)
Ennio Balbo
Italy
Best movies:
The Man with the Balloons (1965)
The Day of the Owl (1968)
Day of Anger (1967)
Anthony La Penna
USA
Best movies:
Amarcord (1973)
The Big Racket (1976)
Confessions of a Police Captain (1971)
Giancarlo Badessi
Italy
Best movies:
Confessions of a Police Captain (1971)
Silent Action (1975)
Blood and Guns (1969)