ITALIAN CONTEMPORARY CINEMA – Film directed by Marco Tullio Giordana
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CINEMA ITALIANO CONTEMPORANEO
(Italian Contemporary Cinema)
FREE ENTRY
I CENTO PASSI(One hundred steps)
ENGLISH SUB-TITLES
Directed by Saverio Costanzo
Cast:
· Luigi Maria Burruano …. Luigi Impastato
· Tony Sperandeo …. Gaetano Badalamenti
· Luigi Lo Cascio …. Peppino
· Lucia Sardo …. Felicia Impastato
· Paolo Briguglia …. Giovanni Impastato
· Pippo Montalbano …. Cesare Manzella
Duration: 114 minuteRating: General Exhibition
Synopsis
“I cento passi” (one hundred steps) was the distance between the Impastatos’ house and the house of Tano Badalamenti, an important Mafia boss, in the small Sicilian town of Cinisi. The movie is the story of Peppino Impastato, a young left-wing activist that in the late seventies (when almost nobody dared to speak about Mafia, and several politicians maintained that Mafia did not even exist) repeatedly denounced Badalamenti crimes and the whole Mafia system using a small local radio station, with the arm of irony. In 1978 Peppino (30 years old) was killed by an explosion. The police archived the case as an accident or a suicide, but his friends never accepted this thesis. Note: This is a true story, and now more than twenty years after later the case has been re-opened.
Awards
5 David di Donatello awards 2001: Best actor (Luigi Lo Cascio), best supporting actor (Tony Sperandeo), best costume designer (Elisabetta Montaldo), best screenplay
Brussels Film Festival 2001: Golden Iris – Best European feature, Silver Iris – Best screenplay
Hollywood Foreign Press Association (Golden Globes) 2001: Nominated: Best foreign language film
San Paolo Film Festival 2000: Audience award – Best feature
Venice Film Festival 2000: Cineavvenire award – Best screenplay, Pasinetti award – Best film; Nominated: Golden Lion
at the Italian Institute of Culture
on 21st March 2013 at 6.30pm