1949 | Italy | Fiction

In nome della legge (In the Name of the Law)

  • Italian - 101 mins
  • Director | Pietro Germi
  • Writer | Giuseppe Mangione, Mario Monicelli, Federico Fellini, Tullio Pinelli, Pietro Germi
  • Producer | Luigi Rovere

STATUS: Released

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A young judge is sent to the small Sicilian town of Capodarso. His mission will be to apply the law in a community accustomed to operating according to the Mafia rules and to living in a permanent state of insecurity. He soon realises that he's on his own and that the locals are not about to collaborate. Based on a magistrate's autobiographical novel.

resistance corruption insecurity autobiographical
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