''One Hundred Days in Palermo'' ( it, Cento giorni a Palermo) is a 1984
non-fiction
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film directed by
Giuseppe Ferrara
Giuseppe Ferrara (15 July 1932 – 25 June 2016) was an Italian film director and screenwriter. with
Giuseppe Tornatore
Giuseppe Tornatore (born 27 May 1956) is an Italian film director and screenwriter. He is considered one of the directors who brought critical acclaim back to Italian cinema.Katz, Ephraim, "Italy," ''The Film Encyclopedia'' (New York: HarperRes ...
as screenplay writer. The film is a
France
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Italy
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coproduction and tells about the last hundred days in the life of the Italian "
Generale dei Carabinieri" and anti-
mafia
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highest authority
Carlo Alberto Dalla Chiesa as
prefect
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A prefect's ...
of
Palermo
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, the capital of the Italian island of
Sicily
(man) it, Siciliana (woman)
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. Dalla Chiesa's life ended with
his barbaric murder, shot by the
machine gun
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s of a mafia squad (along his wife and his bodyguard) on September 3, 1982.
Cast
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Lino Ventura as General Carlo Alberto Dalla Chiesa
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Giuliana De Sio
Giuliana De Sio (born 2 April 1956) is an Italian actress, the younger sister of pop-folk singer Teresa De Sio. She won two David di Donatello for Best Actress and different Silver Ribbons for Best Actress.
Biography and career
Giuliana De Si ...
as Emanuela Setti Carraro
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Lino Troisi
Lino Troisi (4 May 1932 - 4 May 1998) was an Italian stage, film, television and voice actor.
Life and career
Born in Maddaloni, Troisi grew up in Rome, where he studied acting at the Accademia Nazionale di Arte Drammatica Silvio D'Amico. He ...
as
Pio La Torre
Pio La Torre (; 24 December 1927 – 30 April 1982) was a leader of the Italian Communist Party (''Partito Comunista Italiano'', PCI). He was killed by the Mafia after he initiated a law that introduced a new crime in the Italian legal system, maf ...
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Stefano Satta Flores
Stefano Satta Flores (14 January 1937 – 22 October 1985) was an Italian actor and voice actor.
Biography
Born in Naples, Italy, Satta Flores graduated from the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in the Italian capital city of Rome. He bega ...
as Captain Fontana
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Arnoldo Foà
Arnoldo Foà (24 January 1916 – 11 January 2014) was an Italian actor, voice actor, theatre director, singer and writer. He appeared in more than 130 films between 1938 and 2014.
Biography
Foà was born in Ferrara, Italy, to a Jewish fa ...
as Virginio Rognoni
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Andrea Aureli
Andrea Aureli (5 March 1923 – 5 November 2007) was an Italian actor.
Life and career
Born in Terni, Aureli graduated from the Liceo classico in his hometown, then he enrolled the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in Rome, graduating in ...
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Accursio Di Leo
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Adalberto Maria Merli
Adalberto Maria Merli (born 14 January 1938) is an Italian actor and voice actor.
Biography
Born in Rome, Merli is active on film and television and he has appeared in over 27 films since 1965. He had his breakout role in the 1968 RAI televisi ...
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1984 films
1980s gang films
Crime films based on actual events
Films about assassinations
Films about the Sicilian Mafia
Films directed by Giuseppe Ferrara
Films set in 1982
Films set in Sicily
Political films based on actual events
1980s political thriller films
Italian political thriller films
1980s Italian films
Cultural depictions of Italian men
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