The Hundred Steps

"This is not a film about the mafia. This is, above all, a film about energy, the will to build, imagination and happiness of a group of boys that dared gaze up to the heavens and challenge the world in an illusion they could change the world. The film is about family conflict, about love and disillusion. Director Marco Tullio Giordana thus defines The Hundred Steps. Youngster Peppino Impastato was born in Cinisi, a tiny city in Sicily, which in the sixties, was a reference point for drug traffic. Big Boss Tano Badalamenti also lives there. Peppino is determined to put an end to the mafia tradition in the city and refuses to cover the one hundred steps between his own house and the Badalamenti house. He chooses, rather, to run for City Council and to fight the vicious schemes of corruption and power. Two days before the election, he is assassinated - a crime that only twenty years later began to be investigated.

43ª MOSTRA INTERNACIONAL DE CINEMA

43ª MOSTRA INTERNACIONAL DE CINEMA