Adaptation of Leonardo Scascia novel, The Day Of The Owl takes place in Sicillian town where some truck driver is killed by the mafia. Local carabinieri is set to investigate the matter, but finds himself in tough spot when no one is revealing any information to him, and across his office in broad daylight group of gangsters are smiling at his perilous efforts. After awhile he is discarded from the investigation and replaced by more tolerant carabinieri. Damiano Damiani made a good movie from source material, and performance by Claudia Cardinale is very good. Maybe Scascia was right about mafia as anomie, when people are not even interested who's in power and what their ideals are.
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