Montelusa, Sicily, Italy, 1877. Giovanni Bovara, the new chief inspector of the mills, is charged with collecting a severe tax. Sicilian by birth, but Ligurian by adoption, he reasons and speaks as a man of northern Italy and does not understand the dynamics of the law of silence that regulate the Sicilian land, so his intransigence immediately gives him several enemies…
- Status
- Released
- Production
- Palomar, RAI
Keywords
- based on novel or book
- italy
- sicily, italy
- tax collector
- police corruption
- sicilian mafia
- 19th century
- official corruption
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Top Cast
Michele Riondino as Giovanni Bovara
Ester Pantano as Teresina 'Trisìna' Cicero
Cocò Gulotta as Deputy Spampinato
Antonio Pandolfo as Father Artemio Carnazza
Giovanni Carta as Felice La Pergola
Giancarlo Ratti as Prosecutor Ottavio Rebaudengo
Filippo Luna as Attorney at Law Gregorio Fasùlo
Maurizio Bologna as Emanuele 'Memè' Moro
Top Crew
Gianluca Maria Tavarelli · Director
Andrea Camilleri · Screenplay, Novel
Francesco Bruni · Screenplay
Ralf Hildenbeutel · Composer
Marco Pieroni · Cinematographer
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