72SSIFF - 20/28 September 2024
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Il prefetto di ferro / The Iron Prefect

Pasquale Squitieri
Italy      117 m.
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In 1925, Mussolini sent Cesare Mori to Sicily to occupy the position of Prefect. His mission was to fight the Mafia. The fascist regime was worried about its power and influence, and the next four years went down in history as the time of the Iron Prefect, who arrested and sentenced more than two thousand mobsters. Based on a true case of the struggle against the Sicilian Mafia.

Director
Pasquale Squitieri (Italy)
Screenplay
Arrigo Petacco, Ugo Pirro, Pasquale Squitieri
Production
Rizzoli Film (Italy)
Gianni Hecht Lucari
Photography
Silvano Ippoliti
Edition
Ruggero Mastroianni
Music
Ennio Morricone
Sound
Bruno Brunacci
Cast
Giuliano Gemma, Claudia Cardinale, Stefano Satta Flores, Massimo Mollica, Rossella Rusconi
Running Time
117 m.
Country
Italy
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