Salvatore Giuliano (1962)

The unclear and complicated twists between governal powers, independentist party and Mafia in the Sicily of the '40s culminate with the death of Salvatore Giuliano.

Director:

Francesco Rosi

Writers:

Francesco Rosi (screenplay), Suso Cecchi D'Amico (screenplay)

Stars:

Frank Wolff, Salvo Randone, Frederico Zardi

6 wins & 4 nominations.

Cast

Complete credited cast:
Salvo Randone	...	President of Viterbo Assize Court
Frank Wolff	...	Gaspare Pisciotta

Storyline

In 1950, 28-year-old outlaw Salvatore Giuliano is found gunned down in a Sicilian courtyard. Little is as it seems. The film moves back and forth between the late 1940s, when Giuliano and other reprobates were recruited by separatist politicians to do their fighting, and the days leading up to and following Giuliano's death. After Sicily's self-rule is declared, will the outlaws be pardoned as promised? And why does Giuliano order his gang to fire on a peaceful May Day rally? Police, Carabinieri, and Mafia have their uses for him. There's a trial after his death: will the truth come out or does the code of silence help protect those in power?

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Plot Keywords:

shot in a bed | firefight | post war italy | sentence | judgment | 

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Genres:

Crime | Drama | History | Mystery

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Certificate:

Not Rated

Did You Know?

Trivia

One of the ten movies that was on Martin Scorsese's Sight and Sound 2012 Poll..

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Goofs

When his mother comes to view and identify his corpse, Salvatore's stomach clearly moves as the actor struggles to control his breathing.

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Connections

Featured in The Filmmaker and the Labyrinth (2004)

User Reviews

Poor Sicily between the Mafia and the Communist !!!

Francesco Rosi's cinema are around political matters, a tough subject too swallow for usual cinephiles, due the hard life which we lives are enough to stand, but some facts needs a better understanding as this picture suggests, how Sicily gets his independence from Italy is plentiful explained here, each facts were expose in this overlong picture, but Francesco wisely put forward a cursed triangle of forces, the mob, the separatists and the dangerous outlaws who help them in hope to get their crime's amnesty, after they got Sicily's autonomy starts another hard issue, the communist, such thing was totally inconceivable to Italian standards at it's time, a mass killing was prompt provides by the rich farmers and also by the mob, the Giuliano the leader almost didn't appears on the movie, his second on command and your fellows conrades in-arms were charged by the massacre, interesting picture over this dry land on Italy's south, the mountainous island Sicily !!!

Resume:

First watch: 2019 / How many: 1 / Source: DVD / Rating: 8

Details

Country:

Italy

Language:

Italian

Release Date:

1 March 1962 (Italy)

Also Known As:

Salvatore Giuliano

Filming Locations:

98 Via Serafino Mannone, Castelvetrano, Trapani, Sicily, Italy

Company Credits

Production Co:

Galatea Film, Lux Film, Vides Cinematografica

Technical Specs

Runtime:

123 min

Sound Mix:

Mono

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1