The structure of power and the facade of democracy are explored in this dryly sophisticated and cynical political exposé set against the Naples skyline and starring Rod Steiger. Following the fatal collapse of a tenement building, an investigation reveals where profits from municipal developments are landing; as the city's businessmen and builders are also councilors in the Right ruling party, this is scandalous but not surprising. Still, the guilty developer, Nottola (Steiger), is ousted from the Right, only to triumph as a Centrist "reformist." "Rosi is a pragmatist where the neorealists were romantics....The film derives its tension not so much from the conflict between the parties as from the detailed observation of Nottola's maneuverings and their effect on the bricks and mortar of the city. Rod Steiger is an actor with the right kind of intellectual fibre for the part, and his dry, controlled performance constantly fascinates in the way that watching any successful gambler fascinates." (Monthly Film Bulletin) In a brilliant coup, Rosi had actual Neopolitan town councilors play the deputies who wave their hands in the air, screaming "Our hands are clean." (Best Film, Venice Film Festival) Repeated Friday, April 11.