''Quanto è bello lu murire acciso'', also known as ''The Expedition'' and ''How Wonderful to Die Assassinated'', is a 1976 Italian

historical History is the systematic study of the past, focusing primarily on the human past. As an academic discipline, it analyses and interprets evidence to construct narratives about what happened and explain why it happened. Some theorists categ ...

drama film In film and television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone. The drama of this kind is usually qualified with additional terms that specify its particular ...

directed by

Ennio Lorenzini Ennio is a given name. Notable people with the name include: People Academics *Ennio Candotti (1942–2023), Italy-born Brazilian physicist *Ennio De Giorgi (1928–1996), Italian mathematician *Ennio Quirino Visconti (1751–1818), Italian archa ...

. It depicts the failed expedition organized by

Carlo Pisacane Carlo Pisacane, Duke of San Giovanni (1818–1857) was an Italian patriot and one of the first Italian socialist thinkers. He was an early advocate of propaganda by deed, arguing that violence was necessary not only to draw attention to, or gen ...

in 1857 to provoke a rising in the

Kingdom of the Two Sicilies The Kingdom of the Two Sicilies () was a kingdom in Southern Italy from 1816 to 1861 under the control of the House of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, a cadet branch of the House of Bourbon, Bourbons. The kingdom was the largest sovereign state by popula ...

. For this film Lorenzini won the

Nastro d'Argento The (plural: ''Nastri d'Argento''; English: Silver Ribbon) is an Italian film award, held since 1946 by the ''Sindacato Nazionale Giornalisti Cinematografici Italiani'' (Italian National Union of Film Journalists). Awards are given annually in ...

for

Best New Director ''Best New Director'' was an award given by the New York Film Critics Circle from its first inception in 1989 until discontinuing in 1996. There was no award in 1993. 1980s 1989 *Kenneth Branagh – ''Henry V'' **Runners-up: Steve Kloves – '' ...

and a special

David di Donatello The David di Donatello Awards, named after Donatello's ''David (Donatello, bronze), David'', a symbolic statue of the Italian Renaissance, are film awards given out each year by the ''Accademia del Cinema Italiano'' (the Academy of Italian Cin ...

Cast

Giulio Brogi Giulio Brogi (3 May 1935 – 19 February 2019)

as Major De Liguoro * Stefano Satta Flores as Carlo Pisacane *

Angela Goodwin Angela Goodwin (born Angela Bucci; 1 August 1925 – 25 March 2016) was an Italian stage, film and television actress. Life and career Born in Rome, Italy, Goodwin was the daughter of an Italian-American father, and spent her youth in the US w ...

as Enrichetta *

Bruno Corazzari Bruno Corazzari (30 December 1940 – 29 July 2021) was an Italian film, television and stage actor. Life and career Born in Castellarano, Reggio Emilia, Corazzari started his career in the second half of the sixties, playing minor roles in a n ...

as 'Ntoni *

Alessandro Haber Alessandro Haber (born 19 January 1947) is an Italian actor, film director and singer. Haber was born in Bologna in a Jewish family of mixed ancestry (his father was a Romanian Jew and his mother Italian) and spent his childhood in Israel. His m ...

as Nicotera

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* 1976 films Italian drama films Films set in 1857 Films about revolutions Italian films based on actual events 1976 directorial debut films 1970s Italian films 1970s Italian-language films Italian-language drama films {{1970s-Italy-film-stub

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