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Oct 20, 2000 · Placido Rizzotto: Directed by Pasquale Scimeca. With Marcello Mazzarella, Vincenzo Albanese, Carmelo Di Mazzarelli, Gioia Spaziani. The real story of Placido Rizzotto, a trade union leader murdered by the mafia in Sicily in 1948.
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- Biography, Crime, Drama
- Pasquale Scimeca
- 2000-10-20
Apr 12, 2002 · Placido Rizzotto is an exceedingly grim neo-realist film, the third in a trilogy Scimeca shot during the 1990s about various historical uprisings against the Mafia. This is the postwar Italy ...
May 24, 2012 · BBC News. More than 60 years ago, union leader Placido Rizzotto was killed after standing up to the Mafia in his hometown of Corleone. After campaigning by friends and relatives, he is finally...
Placido Rizzotto (Italian pronunciation: [ˈplaːtʃido ritˈtsɔtto]; 2 January 1914 – 10 March 1948) was an Italian partisan, socialist peasant and trade union leader from Corleone, who was kidnapped and murdered by Sicilian Mafia boss Luciano Leggio on 10 March 1948.
Oct 3, 2000 · The movie, Placido Rizzotto (pictured), which will be shown at the London Film Festival in November, celebrates the life of a local trade union figure who led a series of land occupations by...
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The real story of Placido Rizzotto, a trade union leader murdered by the mafia in Sicily in 1948 Drama about mafia and jealousy in post-war Corleone. Placido, the son of Carmelo Rizzotto comes back from the war armed with a new anti-fascist consciousness but purer than ever of heart.
Sep 8, 2000 · Placido Rizzotto. While dramas about the scourge of the Cosa Nostra on Sicily and its people have long been a staple of Italian cinema, Pasquale Scimeca's "Placido Rizzotto" is more than a cut ...
