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Placido Rizzotto (2000)

Placido Rizzotto (2000)

Drama History
Release Date: 2000, October 20
Directors: Pasquale Scimeca
Countries: Italy
Production: Arbash
Cast: Franco Catalano, Gioia Spaziani, Marcello Mazzarella, David Coco, Vincenzo Albanese, Biagio Barone, Melino Imparato, Mario Rivera, Salvatore Gioncardi, Carmelo Di Mazzarelli, Arturo Todaro, Antonello Collesano

Overview:

As a child, Sicilian Placido Rizzotto saw his father imprisoned for a crime he didn't commit, and as a young man he fought in World War II, first as a soldier and then as an anti-fascist partisan. These events have left Placido with little taste for petty tyranny and with a desire to promote social justice. Upon his return home, he becomes increasingly aware that the Mafia has taken hold of his village, witnessing angry and frustrated as gangsters control local politics and take whatever they want from the people. Placido helps to form a trade union as a challenge to the Mafia's authority, and attempts to organize the villagers into a collective to grow crops in the fields taken by the Mafia.

Keywords:

biography sicily, italy trade union land reform anti-mafia