Sasà Jovine (Nino Manfredi) is a self-styled lawyer involved in petty businesses with Neapolitan mobsters (camorristi). When one of his clients, don Michele Miletti (Paolo Stoppa) offers him a huge bribe (mazzetta) to search for his daughter who disappeared mysteriously taking with her some hot documents, Sasà finds himself trapped into a spiral of homicides.
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Nino Manfredi
Sasà Iovine
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Paolo Stoppa
Don Michele Miletti
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Marisa Laurito
Luisella
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Giulia Miletti
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Marisa Merlini
Elena Miletti
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Giacomo Furia
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Lilly Furia
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Adelaida Moretti
Sergio Corbucci Director · Luciano De Crescenzo Screenplay Massimo De Rita Screenplay
First release March 17, 1978 · Produced in Italy · Original title La mazzetta
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Filmauro
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Italy
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Original title
La mazzetta
Original language
Italian
Spoken on screen
Italian
Release dates
Italy · March 17, 1978
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No release date listed for United States.
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