One Hundred Steps

– The story of Peppino Impastato, a political activist who opposed the Mafia in Sicily. One hundred s..

Type:
Movie
Rating:
7.70 / 10
Duration:
One Hour and 54 Minutes
Release Year:
2000
Original Name:
I cento passi
One Hundred Steps (2000) - Also known as I cento passi

The story of Peppino Impastato, a political activist who opposed the Mafia in Sicily. One hundred steps was the number of steps it took to get from the Impastato house to the house of the Mafia boss Tano Badalamenti.

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Release Date:

01 Sep 2000

Language:

Italian

Director:

Marco Tullio Giordana

Writer:

Claudio Fava, Marco Tullio Giordana, Vanda Vaz (adaptation), Monica Zapelli

Main Actors:

Luigi Lo Cascio, Luigi Maria Burruano, Lucia Sardo, Paolo Briguglia

Plot:

"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 wenty years after Peppino's death, the case has been re-opened. Tano Badalamenti, meanwhile, has been convicted in the USA for drug trafficking.

Awards:

Nominated for 1 Golden Globe. Another 19 wins & 19 nominations.

Ratings:
Internet Movie Database:
7.6/10