SALVATORE GIULIANO
Francesco Rosi / Italy / 1962 / 118 min / Black and white
Film-investigation that begins with the discovery, in 1950, of the dead body of Salvatore Giuliano and continues with interwoven flashbacks from his life. Enlisted by Sicilian separatists in 1945 for the cause of Sicilian independence, he became a bandit, involved in murders and kidnappings, until he masterminded the massacre of Portella della Ginestra, in 1947. At the proceedings against Salvatore Giuliano, one of his companions, Gaspare Pisciotta, accuses himself of his murder. The trial attempts to reconstruct the murky ties among banditry, mafia, police and politics until Pisciotta is mysteriously poisoned in jail in 1954. Ignored by the selection committee of the Venice Film Festival, the film was entered in competition in Berlin in 1962, where it won the Silver Bear for best director.
Francesco Rosi
An undisputed maestro of Italian cinema, he began his career as director's assistant to Visconti (La terra trema) and Antonioni (I vinti), and then turned to political cinema, in which he became a great innovator. He earned numerous prestigious awards, amongst these twice the Leon D'Oro at the Venice Film Festival (for the film Le mani sulla città in 1963, and for his career, in 2012), and the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festvial (Il caso Mattei, 1972).
Credits
Subject Suso Cecchi D'Amico, Enzo Provenzale, Francesco Rosi, Franco SolinasScreenplay Suso Cecchi D'Amico, Enzo Provenzale, Francesco Rosi, Franco SolinasCinematography Gianni Di VenanzoEditing Mario SerandreiMusic Piero PiccioniProducer Franco CristaldiProduction company Galatea Film, Lux Film, Vides Cinematografica
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