La mossa del cavallo
DramaThrillerTV Movie
Montelusa, Sicily, Italy, 1877. Giovanni Bovara, the new chief inspector of the mills, is charged with collecting a severe tax. Sicilian by birth, but Ligurian by adoption, he reasons and speaks as a man of northern Italy and does not understand the dynamics of the law of silence that regulate the Sicilian land, so his intransigence immediately gives him several enemies…
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A stark, unvarnished look at institutional rot and the lonely struggle against a deeply entrenched system. It feels like a grim, inevitable march towards conflict, where every interaction is fraught with unspoken threats and moral compromise.
grittytensesomberuncompromisingsteadyperiod dramaneo-realistpolitical thrillercorruptionjusticeoutsiderpower
based on novel or bookitalysicilyitalytax collectorpolice corruptionsicilian mafia19th centuryofficial corruption
