After many years, a retired diplomat returns to his native Sicily to visit an abandoned property and delve into family correspondence. But is it worth bringing up the past? A difficult Sicilian history against the backdrop of the mafia and drugs.
Acting
Volonté's weary eyes carry entire unspoken histories.
Cinematography
Sicily as crumbling monument to itself.
Direction
Greco lets dread accumulate like dust on old letters.
Director
Emidio Greco
Gian Maria Volonté
Carmelo Franzò
Ennio Fantastichini
Commissario
Ricky Tognazzi
Brigadiere Lepri
Massimo Dapporto
Questore
Massimo Ghini
Il rappresentante di medicinali
Paolo Graziosi
Colonnello dei Carabinieri
Gianluca Favilla
Il procuratore
Gianmarco Tognazzi
Figlio di Roccella
Omero Antonutti
Padre Cricco
Tony Sperandeo
Il primo agente
Macha Méril
La vedova del Roccella
Francesco Gabriele
Il capotreno
Leonardo Petrillo
Un testimone
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Greco adapts Leonardo Sciascia's novel, himself a Sicilian who spent his career dissecting how ordinary people enable organized crime through willful ignorance.
Volonté, a committed leftist, reportedly took the role partly because Sciascia's politics aligned with his own—rare alignment of star and material.
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