Il giorno della civetta (The Day of the Owl). 1968. Directed by Damiano Damiani

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Il giorno della civetta (The Day of the Owl). 1968. Italy. Directed by Damiano Damiani. Courtesy of Cinecittà.

Il giorno della civetta (The Day of the Owl). 1968. Italy. Directed by Damiano Damiani. Screenplay by Damiani, Ugo Pirro, adapted from the novel by Leonardo Sciascia. With Claudia Cardinale, Franco Nero, Lee J. Cobb. DCP courtesy of Compass. In Italian; English subtitleS. 108 min.

Like Carlo Emilio Gadda in his detective story That Awful Mess on Via Merulana (which was also reissued by NYRB Classics and adapted into a film presented in this retrospective), Leonardo Scascia made fascism and organized crime the focus of his existential crime novels. The Day of the Owl is one of his most celebrated, set in a provincial Sicilian town where the events leading to a man’s seemingly accidental death become enshrouded in a mysterious, menacing silence, leading fledgling detective Captain Bellodi to suspect a Mafia hit job.

This film accompanies Claudia Cardinale.

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