Il giorno di San Sebastiano (Saint Sebastian Day) is an Italian film written and directed by

Pasquale Scimeca Pasquale Scimeca is an Italian film director and producer. Filmography * ''Il giorno di San Sebastiano'' (Saint Sebastian's Day) (1993) * ''Placido Rizzotto Placido Rizzotto (; 2 January 1914 – 10 March 1948) was an Italian partisan, s ...

.Il giorno di San Sebastiano
, British Film Institute database (access date October 30, 2010) The film is based on true historical events, the

Caltavuturo massacre The Caltavuturo massacre took place on January 20, 1893, in Caltavuturo in the Province of Palermo (Sicily), when during the celebration of Saint Sebastian, some 500 peasants returning from the symbolic occupation of 250 hectares of communal land ...

that took place on January 20, 1893, in

Caltavuturo Caltavuturo ( Sicilian: ''Caltavuturu'') is a town and ''comune'' in the Metropolitan City of Palermo, Sicily, Italy. The neighboring comunes are Polizzi Generosa, Scillato and Sclafani Bagni. History According to many scholars, the name and ori ...

in the

Province of Palermo The Province of Palermo ( it, provincia di Palermo; Sicilian: ''pruvincia di Palermu'') was a province in the autonomous region of Sicily, a major island in Southern Italy. Its capital was the city of Palermo. On 4 August 2015, it was replaced ...

(Sicily), during the celebration of

Saint Sebastian Saint Sebastian (in Latin: ''Sebastianus''; Narbo, Gallia Narbonensis, Roman Empire c. AD 255 – Rome, Italia, Roman Empire c. AD 288) was an early Christian saint and martyr. According to traditional belief, he was killed during the Dioclet ...

.L’eccidio di «San Sebastiano»
La Sicilia, February 8, 2009 On that day some 500 peasants returning from the symbolic occupation of 250 hectares of communal land were dispersed by soldiers and policemen, killing 13 and wounding 21 peasants. The claim for land reform was one of the demands of the

Fasci Siciliani The Fasci Siciliani , short for Fasci Siciliani dei Lavoratori (Sicilian Workers Leagues), were a popular movement of democratic and socialist inspiration, which arose in Sicily in the years between 1889 and 1894. The Fasci gained the support o ...

(Sicilian Leagues), a popular movement of democratic and socialist inspiration in 1891–1894.Guglielmo,
Living the revolution
', p. 35 The film was released 100 years after the event. It is based on a play by

Rosario Garibaldi Bosco Rosario Garibaldi Bosco (Palermo, July 28, 1866 – Turin, December 2, 1936) was an Italian Republican-inspired socialist, politician and writer from Sicily. He was one of the leaders of the ''Fasci Siciliani'' (Sicilian Leagues), a popular movem ...

, one of the leaders of the Fasci Siciliani. The play, a monologue depicting a peasant woman whose husband was killed in the events at Caltavuturo, was first performed on February 2, 1893, in Palermo to raise money for the victims. The film won a

Globo d'oro The Globo d'oro (internationally known as Italian Golden Globe) is an Italian annual film award. It was established in 1960 and it has as jury the Rome Foreign Press Association. The first awards ceremony took place in 1960 and was won by the film ...

for Best First Feature (1994) in Italy and was presented at the

Venice film festival The Venice Film Festival or Venice International Film Festival ( it, Mostra Internazionale d'Arte Cinematografica della Biennale di Venezia, "International Exhibition of Cinematographic Art of the Venice Biennale") is an annual film festival he ...

in the section Showcase of Italian cinema.Biography of Pasquale Scimeca
, Rai Internazionale (access date August 10, 2010)

References

*Guglielmo, Jennifer (2010).
Living the revolution: Italian women's resistance and radicalism in New York City, 1880-1945
', University of North Carolina Press,

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Il giorno di San Sebastiano
Sicilia Film 1993 films Italian historical drama films Films set in Sicily 1990s Italian films {{1990s-Italy-film-stub

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