The Day of the Owl

Year: 1968

Runtime: 108 mins

Language: Italian

Director: Damiano Damiani

DramaCrime

Set in Sicily, this gritty crime drama follows an Italian police detective sent to a remote island town to investigate the murder of a construction supplier. As he delves deeper, he confronts the pervasive power of the Mafia, which manipulates the locals and threatens to corrupt even his own sense of justice.

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