
Feature film — 2018
La mossa del cavallo (2018)
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…
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A high-signal pick with 44 votes.
Palomar / RAI
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Director: Gianluca Maria Tavarelli
On screen
Cast & crew

Michele Riondino
Giovanni Bovara

Ester Pantano
Teresina 'Trisìna' Cicero

Cocò Gulotta
Deputy Spampinato

Antonio Pandolfo
Father Artemio Carnazza

Giovanni Carta
Felice La Pergola

Giancarlo Ratti
Prosecutor Ottavio Rebaudengo

Filippo Luna
Attorney at Law Gregorio Fasùlo

Maurizio Bologna
Emanuele 'Memè' Moro

Roberto Salemi
Judge Pintacuda

Domenico Centamore
Caminiti

Giuseppe Schillaci
Sciaverio Pipitone

Daniele Pilli
Ingrassia
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