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Title: Cosa Nostra: Franco Nero In Three Mafia Tales By Damiano Damiani (3-Disc Collector's Edition)
Condition: New
Format: Blu-ray
EAN: 0760137118725
Genre: Action & Adventure
Release Date: 29/08/2023
Description: The Day of the Owl stars Franco Nero as a police chief who, while investigating the death of a construction worker, goes up against corrupt officials and a ruthless mafia boss (Lee J. Cobb). Adapted from the celebrated novel by Leonardo Sciascia (Illustrious Corpses, Todo Modo), Day of the Owl was the book first to openly deal with organized crime in Sicily. A prestigious production, it was in the running for best film at the Berlin Film Festival and found wins at home in the David di Donatello Awards for Claudia Cardinale, Nero, Damiani, and Best Production.

Nero portrays a simple man thrown in jail for a misdemeanour in The Case is Closed: Forget It. Inside, he sees the grim reality of life behind bars, where the mafia controls everything. A powerful production with Nero in top form and supported by a strong cast including Riccardo Cucciolla (Rabid Dogs) and John Steiner (Tenebrae), the intensity of Damiani's film places it among the finest prison dramas. Presented in Italian and for the first time with the original English dub.

In How to Kill a Judge, Nero plays filmmaker Giacomo Solaris, whose latest film features a judge corrupted by the mafia and who is later found murdered. The real judge the character is based on seizes the footage, but is later killed in the same way. Feeling a degree of responsibility, Solaris investigates, but as the assassinations increase around him, will he reach the source of the conspiracy? Full of twists and a fascinating meta-commentary on cinema through the film-within-the-film, Damiani points the camera at himself and the genre as he investigates the social impact of mafia violence, a fitting end to this survey of Damiani's Cosa Nostra.

SPECIAL FEATURES:

* Three Blu-rays featuring new restoration from the original negative
* Each film presented in English and Italian with new interviews with the cast and crew, including Franco Nero on each disc, extras with experts on the films and more.
* More special features to be announced!
Country/Region of Manufacture: USA
Studio: Radiance
Language: English, Italian
Director: Damiano Damiani
Actor: Franco Nero, Francoise Fabian, Claudia Cardinale, Riccardo Cucciolla, Lee J. Cobb
No Of Discs: 3
Run Time: 6 hours and 50 minutes
Region Code: Blu-ray: B (Europe, AU, NZ, Africa...)
Release Year: 2023

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