One Hundred Steps (2000)

"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 ... See full summary »

Director:

Marco Tullio Giordana

Writers:

Claudio Fava, Marco Tullio Giordana

Stars:

Luigi Lo Cascio, Luigi Maria Burruano, Lucia Sardo

Nominated for 1 Golden Globe. Another 19 wins & 19 nominations.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Luigi Lo Cascio	...	Peppino Impastato
Luigi Maria Burruano	...	Luigi Impastato
Lucia Sardo	...	Felicia Impastato
Paolo Briguglia	...	Giovanni Impastato
Tony Sperandeo	...	Gaetano Badalamenti
Andrea Tidona	...	Stefano Venuti
Claudio Gioè	...	Salvo Vitale
Domenico Centamore	...	Vito
Antonino Bruschetta	...	Cugino Anthony (as Ninni Bruschetta)
Paola Pace	...	Cosima
Pippo Montalbano	...	Cesare Manzella
Aurora Quattrocchi	...	Signora Manzella
Gaspare Cucinella	...	Zio Gasparo
Dario Veca	...	Cugino Paolo Schillirò
Simona Cavalieri	...	Felicetta

Storyline

"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 who in the late seventies (when almost nobody dared to speak about the Mafia, and several politicians maintained that the Mafia did not even exist) repeatedly denounced Badalamenti's criminal activities and the whole Mafia system, by using a small local radio station to broadcast his political pronouncements in the form of ironic humour. 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 conclusion. Note: This is a true story. More than twenty years after Peppino's death, the case has been re-opened. Tano Badalamenti, meanwhile, has been convicted in the USA for drug trafficking.

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Plot Keywords:

mafia boss | sicily italy | 1970s | based on true story | uncle | 

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Genres:

Biography | Crime | Drama

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Details

Country:

Italy

Language:

Italian

Release Date:

1 September 2000 (Italy)

Also Known As:

One Hundred Steps

Filming Locations:

Cinisi, Palermo, Sicily, Italy

Box Office

Cumulative Worldwide Gross:

$216,026

Company Credits

Production Co:

Rai Cinema, Tele+, Titti Film

Technical Specs

Runtime:

114 min 107 min (TV)

Sound Mix:

Dolby

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Did You Know?

Connections

References The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)

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Soundtracks

House of the Rising Sun
Traditional
Performed by The Animals

User Reviews

Nice italian movie

Somebody say that it is a classical italian movie about Mafia, but I'm sure that `I cento passi'is something more. It talks about the real story of Peppino Impastato. Peppinpo was a boy who lived in a small village in Sicily in the 70's. After his grandfather's murder he knew a printer who was communist and becoming communist and through he tried to fight the Mafia and the boss in particular, because he was the mandant of grandfather's murder. `I cento passi' means ` 100 steps' which was the distance between his home and the boss' house. He was killed by dynamite the same day of Moro's murder (a famous italian politician) but the police said that it was an accident. It is a real story and it make you thing how the pawer is dangerous but also how is important the bravery.