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Peppino Impastato, an activist in 1970s Sicily, used radio to defy the mafia's reign. His bold defiance led to his murder by the mob, exposing society's silence on organized crime.Peppino Impastato, an activist in 1970s Sicily, used radio to defy the mafia's reign. His bold defiance led to his murder by the mob, exposing society's silence on organized crime.Peppino Impastato, an activist in 1970s Sicily, used radio to defy the mafia's reign. His bold defiance led to his murder by the mob, exposing society's silence on organized crime.
- Awards
- 19 wins & 20 nominations
Antonino Bruschetta
- Cugino Anthony
- (as Ninni Bruschetta)
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Did you know
- TriviaPeppino Impastato was murdered the same day of former President Aldo Moro, May 9, 1978. Because of the ongoing national tragedy, Impastato's story was ignored by the news, and remained pretty much unknown for twenty years, until Marco Tullio Giordana's movie brought it to a wider audience.
- ConnectionsFeatured in The 58th Annual Golden Globe Awards 2001 (2001)
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This has quite a poignant underlying message of complicity and compliance as it tells the true story of firebrand young man Peppino Impastato (Luigi Lo Cascio). He lives on a mafia-dominated Sicily in a family led by his acquiescing father Luigi (Luigi Maria Burruano). It's not that his dad is cowardly, far from it, but he has a wife (Lucia Sardo) and another son, Giovanni (Paolo Briguglia), so is constantly conscious that any resistance to the established order could prove perilous. Peppino has all the vigour and irresponsibility of his age and together with some friends sets up a local radio station that mixes a contemporary mix of classic rock music with some fairly direct rantings about the local "don" - comparing him to legendary Sioux chief Sitting Bull holding court over a tribe full of drug users and sleazy hookers. This isn't a gun-toting organisation. It doesn't need to be. It gets it's way by a combination of carrot and stick approaches. If the population co-operate then life can be good, but if they stray from the arbitrary control of "Tano" (Tony Sperandeo) then they might find themselves starring in their own personal version of a Buster Keaton film. Cascio is on strong form here offering us quite a compelling presentation of a young man who genuinely believed that his on-air protestations could elicit change for good and when his family warn him of the risks - to them and to him - that just seems to galvanise him. The conclusion is history; a sad and depressing history that rather well illustrated the extent of the collusion that existed between the authorities and the "authorities" and the disposability of an inconvenient life. Briguglia also contributes well as does Sardo as his strong-willed but increasingly wary mother whilst the writing offers us a lively bedrock for characters that mingled passion with prescience in an entertaining and engaging fashion. The production looks good and it's well worth a watch.
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- Gross worldwide
- $216,026
- Runtime1 hour 54 minutes
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
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