the hundred steps
(i cento passi)

 

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SINOPSIS

Cinisi, a Sicilian village like many others, is an important crossroads for drug trafficking. A hundred steps separe Peppino Impastato's house from that of Mafia boss Tano Badalamenti. Peppino refuses to walk those hundred steps. His adolescence reaches its apex in '68 when the world's youth contradicted their fathers' values and certainties. Peppino also rebels against authority and in Sicily this means challenging the Mafia. The atmosphere becomes intense. Peppino stands in the council elections, aiming to bring his battle to the Town Hall. Two days before the elections he his killed. It is an anonymous killing. Twenty years later palermo Public Prosecutor's Office committed Badalamenti for trial for ordering the assassination. The trial has not yet taken place.

 


Running time
114 min
Color
Y
Type
DRA
Film code
2359