How to Kill a Judge
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| Directed by | Damiano Damiani |
| Written by | Damiano Damiani Enrico Ribulsi Fulvio Gicca Palli |
| Produced by | Mario Cecchi Gori |
| Starring | Franco Nero |
| Cinematography | Mario Vulpiani |
| Edited by | Antonio Siciliano |
| Music by | Riz Ortolani |
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| Country | Italy |
| Language | Italian |
How to Kill a Judge (Italian: Perché si uccide un magistrato), also known as The Murder of a Magistrate and Why Does One Kill a Magistrate?, is a 1974 Italian crime-thriller film directed by Damiano Damiani. It is the final chapter in the Damiani's trilogy about mafia, after The Day of the Owl and Confessions of a Police Captain.[1]
It was released on DVD by Blue Underground in March 2006.[2]
Plot
Giacomo Solaris is a film-maker whose latest released feature film is a crime thriller about a judge who gets too friendly with the Mafia and is murdered. A resentful Sicilian magistrate orders the film seized, but then the judge winds up dead, in a fashion just like that in Solaris's movie. Solaris realizes that corrupt political forces are pulling strings and attempting to cover up murders of his friends who begin to die in grisly ways. Will he learn the truth about the murder of the judge in time?
Cast
- Franco Nero: Giacomo Solaris
- Françoise Fabian: Antonia Traini
- Ennio Balbo: The investigating Judge
- Luciano Catenacci: Lawyer Meloria
- Tano Cimarosa: Tano Barra - the parking attendant
- Mico Cundari: Sicilia Notte Editor
- Eva Czemerys: Sibilla
- Claudio Gora: The Actor playing the judge in Solaris
- Marco Guglielmi: Attorney Alberto Traini-Luis
- Claudio Nicastro: The Party Secretary
- Renzo Palmer: Vincenzo Terrasini
- Elio Zamuto: On. Ugo Selimi
See also
References
- ^ Antonio Bruschini, Antonio Tentori. Città violente: il cinema poliziesco italiano. Tarab, 1998.
- ^ "'How to Kill a Judge' thrills with cerebral, intricate plot Italian mystery has social bent". Washington Times. March 2, 2006. Retrieved 8 February 2012.
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