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Placido Rizzotto (DVD) (*)

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Screened, competed or awarded at:
Venice Film Festival
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
Italian ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )
Italian ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Italy ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
104 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.85:1)

Special Features:
Biographies
Cast/Crew Interview(s)
Filmographies
Interactive Menu

Movie filmed in 2000 and produced in:
Italy ( Italy, Greece )

Directed By:
Pasquale Scimeca

Written By:
Pasquale Scimeca

Actors:
Marcello Mazzarella ..... Placido Rizzotto
Vincenzo Albanese ..... Lo Sciancato
Carmelo Di Mazzarelli ..... Carmelo Rizzotto
Gioia Spaziani ..... Lia
Arturo Todaro ..... Captain Della Chiesa
Biagio Barone ..... Pasquale Criscione
Franco Catalano ..... Giovanni Pasqua
Giuseppe Gennusa

Synopsis:

On the evening of March 10 1948 the Secretary of the Corleone Trade Union Headquarters, Placido Rizzotto, disappears. By a strange twist of fate at the time of his disappearance some young men converge and become important in Italian contemporary history for various reasons: the captain of the carabinieri Carlo Alberto Dalla Chiesa, who carried out the investigation and arrested Rizzotto's murderers; the young university student Pio La Torre, who took over from Rizzotto; and, on the other side, Luciano Liggio, Rizzotto's murderer and his gang members, who went on to become Mafia bosses.

One man's fight against organized crime proves to have devastating consequences for himself and his loved ones in this drama from Italy. As a young man, Placido Rizzotto (Marcello Mazzarella) saw his father imprisoned by police for a crime he didn't commit, and as a teenager he had to contend with the brutal excesses of Mussolini's soldiers while fighting in World War II. These events have left Placido with little taste for petty tyranny and with a desire to promote social justice. Upon his return home from the war, Placido becomes increasingly aware that organized crime has taken hold of his village, and he becomes angry and frustrated as he sees Mafia leaders controlling local politics and taking whatever land or property they want. 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 gangsters from the people. Lia (Gioia Spaziani), Placido's girlfriend, admires his bravery, but doesn't believe he's aware of the danger he's put himself in as she urges him to stop his crusade against the crime families. Placido, however, becomes all too aware of how badly Lo Sciancato (Vincenzo Albanese), a local crime kingpin, wants to hurt him when he sends a handful of his goons to brutally beat and gang-rape Lia. Placido Rizzotto was based on a true story and features newsreel footage of some of the real-life figures who appear as characters in this film.

This product was added to our catalog on Monday 24 December, 2007.

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