100 Schritte (2000)

100 Schritte: Directed by Marco Tullio Giordana. With Luigi Lo Cascio, Luigi Maria Burruano, Lucia Sardo, Paolo Briguglia. “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.

“I was well surprised to see how with intelligence a film with a plot which could be easily mixed up to the typical u0026quot;mafiau0026#39;s films serieu0026quot; has been excellently directed and extremely well acted.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eNormally I do not make any type of comparison to the u0026quot;golden yearsu0026quot; (sixties-seventies) of the Italian cinema but for me is a must today to say that this film and the director: Giordana does not have anything to envy to Francesco Rosi and his films. The actor Luigi Lo Cascio is just excellent well deep involved in his character.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eDo not miss the film it worths even in DVD or VHS.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eRating: 7/10”