How to Kill a Judge

{{short description|1974 film by Damiano Damiani}}

{{Infobox film

| name = How to Kill a Judge

| image = Perché si uccide un magistrato.jpg

| caption =

| director = Damiano Damiani

| writer = Damiano Damiani
Enrico Ribulsi
Fulvio Gicca Palli

| starring = Franco Nero

| music = Riz Ortolani

| cinematography = Mario Vulpiani

| editing = Antonio Siciliano

| producer =Mario Cecchi Gori

| distributor =

| released = {{Film date|1974}}

| runtime =

| country = Italy

| language = Italian

| budget =

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How to Kill a Judge ({{langx|it|Perché si uccide un magistrato}}), also known as The Murder of a Magistrate and Why Does One Kill a Magistrate?, is a 1974 Italian crime-thriller film directed by Damiano Damiani. It is the final chapter in the Damiani's trilogy about mafia, after The Day of the Owl and Confessions of a Police Captain.{{cite book|last=Antonio Bruschini, Antonio Tentori|title=Città violente: il cinema poliziesco italiano|publisher=Tarab, 1998}}

It was released on DVD by Blue Underground in March 2006.{{cite news|title='How to Kill a Judge' thrills with cerebral, intricate plot Italian mystery has social bent|url=http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=WT&p_theme=wt&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=1101DA2F05847DA8&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM|accessdate=8 February 2012|newspaper=Washington Times|date=March 2, 2006}}

==Plot ==

Giacomo Solaris is a film-maker whose latest released feature film is a crime thriller about a judge who gets too friendly with the Mafia and is murdered. A resentful Sicilian magistrate orders the film seized, but then the judge winds up dead, in a fashion just like that in Solaris's movie. Solaris realizes that corrupt political forces are pulling strings and attempting to cover up murders of his friends who begin to die in grisly ways. Will he learn the truth about the murder of the judge in time?