The Iron Prefect Blu-Ray

Based on the true story of iron-fisted prefect Cesare Mori, who was sent to Sicily for an Eliot Ness-The Untouchables-style purge of the Mafia. Mori takes on organized crime on the island with uncompromising force, even when he is subjected to mass murder in an attempt to scare him away. Pasquale Squitieri (The Climber) directs this fantastic period film, which won the David di Donatello Award for Best Film and features spaghetti western icon Giuliano Gemma brilliantly playing against type as the title character, which earned him an award for his performance at the prestigious Karlovy Vary Film Festival. Alongside Gemma are the cream of international cinema from the period, including Claudia Cardinale (The Day of the Owl) and Francisco Rabal (Sorcerer), the most important chronicler of Italian civil cinema, screenwriter Ugo Pirro (The Working Class Goes to Heaven), and legendary composer Ennio Morricone (Once Upon a Time in America).

SPECIAL FEATURES

2K restoration of the film from the original negative with Italian and English audio options

Uncompressed mono PCM audio

Archival interview with director Pasquale Squitieri and star Giuliano Gemma (2009) New interview with Squitieri's biographer Domenico Monetti (2023) New appreciation of Giuliano Gemma and the film by filmmaker Alex Cox (2023)p>

Original trailer

New and improved English subtitles for Italian audio and English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing for English audio