July 21, 2011

Film About Crime in Italy

Informative film about deaths of Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellini in Sicily and the aftermath. Includes scenes from the Maxi Trials of 344 defendants; the war between Palermo families and the Corleonesi. 70 year-old photographer Leitizia Battaglia helps narrate. Giuseppe Ayala: "The mafia is an organic part of the Italian political system." Silvio Berlusconi current Italian Prime Minister says, to want to be a magistrate is "to be mentally disturbed." One comment reveals that the crime families are not concerned with left or right politics. They are only concerned with power and who has it. Rosaria Scifani, a widow of one of the many murder victims, says that the government cannot be trusted to protect them from the crime families. Sounds just like the United States.



Excellent Cadavers (2005)

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Directed by Marco Turco. With Giuseppe Ayala, Letizia Battaglia, Alexander Stille.

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