La mossa del cavallo

La mossa del cavallo

2018 · 111 min · ★ 7.6 · Drama, Thriller, TV 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…

Directed by Gianluca Maria Tavarelli · Written by Andrea Camilleri

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