Directed by:
Damiano DamianiCinematography:
Claudio RagonaComposer:
Ennio MorriconeCast:
Franco Nero, Georges Wilson, John Steiner, Riccardo Cucciolla, Turi Ferro, Corrado Solari, Claudio Nicastro, Patrizia Adiutori, Francesco D'Adda (more)Plots(1)
Franco Nero stars as an architect thrown in jail for a misdemeanour. Inside, he sees the grim reality of life behind bars, faced with corrupt guards and a prison yard ruled by the mafia. Damiano Damiani continues his exploration of mafia stories with this gritty prison drama. Nero gives a sympathetic performance as the honest man, while support is given by noted character actors including Riccardo Cucciolla as another innocent and John Steiner as a psychotic killer. With Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion and Damiani’s own Confessions of a Police Captain, this exploration of authority and corruption was as critical as the era’s finest work and ranks alongside the best Italian genre films of the 1970s. (Radiance Films)
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