''Salvatore Giuliano'' is a 1962 Italian film directed by

Francesco Rosi Francesco Rosi (; 15 November 1922 – 10 January 2015) was an Italian film director. His film '' The Mattei Affair'' won the Palme d'Or at the 1972 Cannes Film Festival. Rosi's films, especially those of the 1960s and 1970s, often appeared to h ...

. Shot in a neo-realist documentary, non-linear style, it follows the lives of those involved with the famous Sicilian bandit

Salvatore Giuliano Salvatore Giuliano (; Sicilian: Turiddu or Sarvaturi Giulianu; 16 November 1922 – 5 July 1950) was an Italian bandit, who rose to prominence in the disorder that followed the Allied invasion of Sicily in 1943. In September of that year, Giul ...

. Giuliano is mostly off-screen during the film and appears most notably as a corpse.

Reception

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called it "almost certainly the best film about the social and political forces that have shaped

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, that benighted island." Gino Moliterno argued that "Rosi's highly original strategy in this landmark film is to aim at neither an "objective" journalistic documentary nor a fictional recreation but to employ as wide a range of disparate formal and stylistic elements as necessary to conduct a committed search for the truth that becomes, in a sense, its own narrative."

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said that "Rosi marries the neo-realist, black-and-white, populist aesthetic to the mad media circus of ''

La Dolce Vita ''La Dolce Vita'' (; Italian for "the sweet life" or "the good life"Kezich, 203) is a 1960 satirical comedy-drama film directed and co-written (with Ennio Flaiano, Tullio Pinelli and Brunello Rondi) by Federico Fellini. The film stars Mar ...

'', tosses in some minimalist alienation from

Antonioni Michelangelo Antonioni (, ; 29 September 1912 – 30 July 2007) was an Italian filmmaker. He is best known for directing his "trilogy on modernity and its discontents"—''L'Avventura'' (1960), '' La Notte'' (1961), and '' L'Eclisse'' (19 ...

, makes the film jump back and forth in time without any markers (so that you realize you're back in the present only a few minutes after you're already in a sequence), and makes his despair so infectious that we would probably be disappointed to know the truth."

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noted that "''Salvatore Giuliano'' manages to sustain an almost impossible balance of immediacy and reflection: it's such an exciting piece of filmmaking that you might not realize until the end that its dominant tone is contemplative, even melancholy." Director

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listed ''Salvatore Giuliano'' as one of his twelve favorite films of all time.

Cast

* Salvo Randone as President of Viterbo Assize Court * Frank Wolff as

Gaspare Pisciotta Gaspare Pisciotta (Montelepre, 5 March 1924 – Palermo, 9 February 1954) was a companion of the Sicilian bandit Salvatore Giuliano, and considered to be the co-leader of his outlaw band. He is also the Judas in Giuliano's legend as he b ...

* Director

provided narration in the Italian version. * Most of the other cast members were non-professional locals. Known uncredited cast members: * Pietro Cammarata as

* Sennuccio Benelli as Reporter * Giuseppe Calandra as Minor Official * Max Cartier as Francesco *

Fernando Cicero Fernando Cicero, better known as Nando Cicero (22 January 1931 – 30 July 1995), was an Italian film director, screenwriter and actor. Born in Asmara, Cicero debuted as an actor, working with directors such as Luchino Visconti ('' Senso'', 1953 ...

as Bandit * Bruno Ukmar as Spy * Cosimo Torino as Frank Mannino * Federico Zardi as Pisciotta’s Defense Counsel * The Citizens of

Castelvetrano Castelvetrano ( scn, Castiḍḍuvitranu) is a town and ''comune'' in the province of Trapani, Sicily, southern Italy. The archeological site of Selinunte is located within the municipal territory. The municipality borders with Campobello d ...

Montelepre Montelepre (; scn, Muncilebbri) is a town and ''comune'' in the Metropolitan City of Palermo, Sicily, Italy. It is known for having been the native city of Sicilian bandit Salvatore Giuliano, of architect Rosario Candela, as well as the ancest ...

, and

Palermo Palermo ( , ; scn, Palermu , locally also or ) is a city in southern Italy, the capital of both the autonomous region of Sicily and the Metropolitan City of Palermo, the city's surrounding metropolitan province. The city is noted for it ...

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as Themselves

Crew

* Director: Francesco Rosi * Writing credits: ** Suso Cecchi d'Amico ** Enzo Provenzale ** Franceso Rosi ** Franco Solinas * Producer: Franco Cristaldi

Awards

Silver Bear for Best Director The Silver Bear for Best Director (german: Silberner Bär/Bester Regie) is an award presented annually at the Berlin International Film Festival since 1956. It is given for the best achievement in directing and is chosen by the International Jury ...

1962 Events January * January 1 – Western Samoa becomes independent from New Zealand. * January 3 – Pope John XXIII excommunicates Fidel Castro for preaching communism. * January 8 – Harmelen train disaster: 93 die in the wo ...

*Silver Ribbon Award for Best Cinematography, 1963 *Silver Ribbon Award for Best Director, 1963 *Silver Ribbon Award for Best Score, 1963

References

Bibliography

*Gesù Sebastiano (a cura di), ''Francesco Rosi'', Giuseppe Maimone Editore, Catania 1993 *Kezich Tullio e Sebastiano Gesù (a cura di), ''Salvatore Giuliano'', Giuseppe Maimone Editore, Catania 1993 * Annarita Curcio, ''Salvatore Giuliano: una parabola storica'', https://www.doppiozero.com/materiali/salvatore-giuliano-una-parabola-storica

External links

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''Salvatore Giuliano''
an essay by

Michel Ciment Michel Ciment (; born 26 May 1938 in Paris) is a French film critic and the editor of the cinema magazine '' Positif''. Ciment is a Chevalier of the Order of Merit, Chevalier of the Legion of Honour, Officer in the Order of Arts and Letters, ...

at the

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