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One Hundred Days in Palermo is a italien film of genre Drama directed by Giuseppe Tornatore released in USA on 1 january 1984 with Lino Ventura
One Hundred Days in Palermo (1984)
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Add to a movie listCento giorni a Palermo (English: One hundred days in Palermo) is a 1984 non-fiction film directed by Giuseppe Ferrara with Giuseppe Tornatore as screenplay writer. The film is a France/Italy coproduction and tells about the last hundred days in the life of the Italian "Generale dei Carabinieri" and anti-mafia highest authority Carlo Alberto Dalla Chiesa as prefect of Palermo, the capital of the Italian island of Sicily. Dalla Chiesa's life ended with his barbaric murder, shot by the machine guns of a mafia squad (along his wife and his bodyguard) on September 3, 1982.
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L'histoire vraie des cent derniers jours du général des carabiniers et plus haute autorité pour lutter contre la mafia Carlo Alberto dalla Chiesa, préfet de Palerme, qui fut assassiné à la mitraillette avec sa femme et son garde du corps par un escadron de mafieux le 3 septembre 1982.Actors
Lino Ventura
(Generale Carlo Dalla Chiesa)
Giuliana De Sio
(Emmanuela Setti Carraro)
Stefano Satta Flores
(Capitano Fontana)
Arnoldo Foà
(Ministro Rognoni)
Lino Troisi
(Pio La Torre)
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