Il Giorno della Civetta (1968)

Il Giorno della Civetta - Mafia

Director: Damiano Damiani
Writers: Ugo Pirro, Damiano Damiani
Stars: Claudia Cardinale, Franco Nero, Lee J. Cobb
Italia 1968

In Sicily, the truck driver Salvatore Colasberna is murdered while delivering a load of cement to a highway construction project. The murder takes place within sight and earshot of the house of Rosa Nicolosi and her husband. Police captain Bellodi hears that there may be irregularities in the construction of the highway that amount to corruption. He is also told that Rosa has loose morals, though she denies it strenuously and claims that she has been faithful to her husband. Bellodi is unable to determine whether Colasberna was murdered because he stumbled onto a corruption racket or because he was a lover of Rosa, and was shot by her husband, who disappeared after the murder. Another possibility is that Nicolosi saw the murderer and was also murdered, or went into hiding fearing for his life.

It's all about the OMERTA and FEAR.
The mafia-boss wins but realizes that he too is the prisoner of the system, based on fear and constant macho behavior.