Film analysis: “I cento passi”

Film analysis: “I cento passi” Lecture1: Intro and social/historical context Lecture 2: Mise en scéne Lecture 3: Editing Lecture 4: Sound, Shooting technique, etc The Sicilian MaDia in the 1960s/70s Leonardo Sciascia (author of Il giorno della civetta, 1962), in his essay 'La maDia' (1957): Il fatto è che in Sicilia la ma5ia è una forza: indubbiamente in conati di sopravvivenza, a meno che non riesca a portare a completamento e a perfezione la trasformazione che pare sia in atto. Se dal latifondo riuscirà a migrare e a consolidarsi nella città, se riuscira ad accagliarsi intomo alla burocrazia regionale, se riuscirà ad in5iltrarsi. (vol. Ill, p. 1185) The fact is that the Ma5ia in Sicily is still a powerful force: it’s certainly struggling to survive unless it manages to accomplish its current transformation. If from the latifundia it manages to migrate and consolidate inside the cities, if it manages to attach itself to the regional bureaucracies, if it manages to in5iltrate society. “Il sacco di Palermo” >> 1950s/1960s
Vito Ciancimino
DC Counsellor for Public works, 1959-64; Mayor 1970-71
Salvo Lima
DC Deputy Mayor 1956-58; Mayor 1958-63, 1965-66; MP 1968; MEP 1979-92
Urbanization
Control of local economy: protection, racketeering
Alliance with corrupted politicians
Building industry and public contracts
I cento passi
the mafiosi’s past – Palermo’s airport
the bosses’ power
the mayor, the police
airport, motorway
Cinisi Cinisi: about 11,000 inhabitants, 20miles west of Palermo Local mafia boss: Cesare Manzella, linked to Salvatore Greco (family of Ciaculli)
First Mafia war:
La Barbera (Borgo Vecchio) vs Greco (Ciaculli): 1963 Salvatore La Barbera: lupara bianca, Jan
Cesare Manzella: car bomb, 26 Apr
Ciaculli massacre: car bomb, 30 Jun
1969 Michele Cavataio (Acquasanta): shot, 10 Dec
Gaetano Badalamenti (Tano): 1963 replaces Manzella as boss of Cinisi
Links with Bonanno family (NY)
The new Mafia: Arms and drugs trafficking; more violent and more powerful. Less attached to the local community.
Second Mafia war (1978-1983)
Corleonesi, Greco vs Badalamenti (Cinisi), Buscetta (Palermo): c1000 deaths
Badalamenti: Pizza Connection: arrested 1984; 11 murders
Giuseppe (Peppino) Impastato, 1948-­‐1978 • 
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Father, Luigi Impastato, cousin of Cesare Manzella, close friend of Gaetano Badalamenti Born in Cinisi, 5 January 1948 1965-­‐67 “L’idea socialista”, polemics with PCI (Stefano Venuti) and leaves home 1972 political militancy (Lotta continua, Mauro Rostagno, k.1988) •  1975 Musica e cultura •  1977 Radio Aut: “Onda pazza” •  1978 candidate for Democrazia Proletaria at Council elections •  9 May 1978: murdered Investigation: Rocco Chinnici, k. 1983 1992 Case closed 1996 Case reopened 2002 Badalamenti sentenced for murder