The law of silence

Movie
German title	The law of silence
Original title	E venne il giorno dei limoni neri
Country of production	Italy
original language	Italian
Publishing year	1970
length	99 (German version 90) minutes
Rod
Director	Camillo Bazzoni
script	Franco Barbaresi ; Nicola Manzari ; Yvette Louis; Camillo Bazzoni ; Giovanni Addessi
production	Giovanni Addessi
music	Carlo Rustichelli
camera	Sandro Mancori
cut	Nella Nannuzzi
occupation
	Antonio Sabàto : Rosario Inzulia; Peter Carsten : Lo Presti; Silvano Tranquilli : Commissioner Modica; Pier Paolo Capponi : Francesco Macaluso; Aldo Caponi : Carmelo Rizzo ; (as Don Backy ); Florinda Bolkan : Rossana; Didi Perego : Concettina; Guido Lollobrigida : Michele ; (as Lee Burton ); Raffaele Sparanero : Antonio ; (as Raf Sparanero ); Maria Luisa Sala : Assunta; Frank Latimore : Americans; Stefano Satta Flores : Sicilian Mafioso; Loris Bazzocchi : Pasquale; Sergio Scarchilli : Bandit; Cesare D'Arpa : Vincenzo; Bruno Boschetti : Capoccia;

The law of silence (original title: E venne il giorno dei limoni neri ) is an Italian gangster film from 1970. Camillo Bazzoni directed Antonio Sabàto in the lead role of the film, which received its German-language premiere on September 5, 1989 on private television.

action

Eight years ago, young mafioso Rosario Inzulia and his friend Pasquale were sentenced to eight years of forced labor in an American quarry for a drug business they had nothing to do with, during which time Inzulia's wife died, Pasquale was murdered and Rosario's company almost went bankrupt. Back in Palermo, he breaks with his former cronies, but also denies Commissioner Modica his plans to win him as a key witness. A fatherly friend, building contractor Lo Presti, lends a hand to Rosario, meanwhile he has to accept setbacks and attacks by the mafia. Via the widow Pasquales, Rossana, who is becoming his lover, he comes into contact with Carmelo Rizzo, who also has an old account with the Mafiosi. The two soon find out that Lo Presti was and is the man behind the criminal acts. So he kidnaps his son to get him to report himself. Since he was shot dead by American mafiosi shortly before a confession, Rosario wrote down everything that happened in the face of his faint. Before he can deliver it to Modica, he is murdered. Modica wants to keep fighting.

criticism

The lexicon of international films judged it to be “a partly exciting, partly just brutal gangster film that sheds too superficial light on the mafia problem.” The film, which focuses entirely on the spectacular effect, is quite decent, said the Segnalazioni Cinematografiche .

Remarks

The gross profit in Italy was 219 million lire .

Web links

The law of silence in the Internet Movie Database (English)
The film at comingsoon.it
Entry in the genre directory Pollanetsquad

Individual evidence

^ Entry of the film in the Archivio del Cinema Italiano ; the title is written in the opening credits without dots
↑ The Law of Silence. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
↑ Segnalazioni Cinematografiche, Vol. 69, 1970
^ Roberto Poppi, Mario Pecorari: Dizionario del Cinema italiano. I film dal 1970 al 1979. Vol. 4, tomo 1, AL. Rom, Gremese, 1996, p. 290

[1] Entry of the film in the Archivio del Cinema Italiano ; the title is written in the opening credits without dots

[2] The Law of Silence. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .

[3] Segnalazioni Cinematografiche, Vol. 69, 1970

[4] Roberto Poppi, Mario Pecorari: Dizionario del Cinema italiano. I film dal 1970 al 1979. Vol. 4, tomo 1, AL. Rom, Gremese, 1996, p. 290