The Day of the Owl

The Day of the Owl

What are 'friends' for...? Why, for murder, terror, extortion, violence and other profitable enterprises!

1968108 min7.1 / 10

A morally corrosive crime drama about institutional corruption and the inescapable reach of organized crime, told with deliberate ambiguity about complicity and resistance.

Set in Sicily, this violent crime drama tells the tale of an Italian cop who heads to a small island town to look into the death of a construction supplier. Once there he is shocked by the influence the Mafia has over the people and even himself.

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