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Placido Rizzotto (2000)
Directed by Pasquale Scimeca
Overview
As a child, Sicilian Placido Rizzotto saw his father imprisoned for a crime he didn’t commit, and as a young man he fought in World War II, first as a soldier and then as an anti-fascist partisan. These events have left Placido with little taste for petty tyranny and with a desire to promote social justice. Upon his return home, he becomes increasingly aware that the Mafia has taken hold of his village, witnessing angry and frustrated as gangsters control local politics and take whatever they want from the people. Placido helps to form a trade union as a challenge to the Mafia’s authority, and attempts to organize the villagers into a collective to grow crops in the fields taken by the Mafia.
Length 110 minutes
Actors
Marcello Mazzarella | Vincenzo Albanese | Carmelo Di Mazzarelli | Gioia Spaziani | Franco Catalano | Biagio Barone | Arturo Todaro | David Coco | Antonello Collesano | Matteo Barbera | Caterina Di Francesca | Liliana Abbene | Giuseppe Gennusa | Mario Rivera | Salvatore Gioncardi | Tonino Russo | Giuseppe Fiasconaro | Domenico Paternostro | Antonio Emanuele | Melino Imparato