Based on the true story of Cesare Mori, The Iron Prefect who was sent to Sicily for an Eliot Ness-in-The Untouchables style clean-up of the mafia. Mori approaches organized crime on the island with uncompromising force even in the face of mass murders designed to scare him off. Pasquale Squitieri (Cammora) directs this stunning period piece which won the David di Donatello award for best film and features spaghetti western icon Giuliano Gemma (Day of Anger) brilliantly playing against type as the titular hero, winning him an award for his performance at the prestigious Karlovy Vary Film Festival. Alongside Gemma are the cream of international film from the period with co-stars Claudia Cardinale (The Day of the Owl) and Francisco Rabal (Sorcerer), the key surveyor of Italy's civic cinema screenwriter Ugo Pirro (The Working Class Goes to Heaven) and legendary composer Ennio Morricone (Once Upon a Time in America).