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One Hundred Steps

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7.8/10 • 672

2000-09-011h 54m

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Peppino Impastato is a quick-witted lad growing up in 1970s Sicily. Despite hailing from a family with Mafia ties and living just one hundred steps from the house of local boss Tano Badalamenti, Peppino decides to expose the Mafia by using a pirate radio station to broadcast his political pronouncements in the form of ironic humour.

Directors
Marco Tullio Giordana
Editors
Roberto Missiroli

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  1. Luigi Lo Cascio

    Luigi Lo Cascio

    Peppino Impastato

  2. Luigi Maria Burruano

    Luigi Maria Burruano

    Luigi Impastato

  3. Lucia Sardo

    Lucia Sardo

    Felicia Impastato

  4. Paolo Briguglia

    Paolo Briguglia

    Giovanni Impastato

  5. Tony Sperandeo

    Tony Sperandeo

    Tano Badalamenti

  6. Andrea Tidona

    Andrea Tidona

    Stefano Venuti

  7. Claudio Gioè

    Claudio Gioè

    Salvo Vitale

  8. Domenico Centamore

    Domenico Centamore

    Vito

  9. Antonino Bruschetta

    Antonino Bruschetta

    Anthony

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CinemaSerf

Dec 1, 2024

7/10

This has quite a poignant underlying message of complicity and compliance as it tells the true story of firebrand young man Peppino Impastato (Luigi Lo Cascio). He lives on a mafia-dominated Sicily in a family led by his acquiescing father Luigi (Luigi Maria Burruano). It's not that his dad is cowardly, far from it, but he has a wife (Lucia Sardo) and another son, Giovanni (Paolo Briguglia), so is constantly conscious that any resistance to the established order could prove perilous. Peppino has all the vigour and irresponsibility of his age and together with some friends sets up a local radio station that mixes a contemporary mix of classic rock music with some fairly direct rantings about the local "don" - comparing him to legendary Sioux chief Sitting Bull holding court over a tribe full of drug users and sleazy hookers. This isn't a gun-toting organisation. It doesn't need to be. It gets it's way by a combination of carrot and stick approaches. If the population co-operate then life can be good, but if they stray from the arbitrary control of "Tano" (Tony Sperandeo) then they might find themselves starring in their own personal version of a Buster Keaton film. Cascio is on strong form here offering us quite a compelling presentation of a young man who genuinely believed that his on-air protestations could elicit change for good and when his family warn him of the risks - to them and to him - that just seems to galvanise him. The conclusion is history; a sad and depressing history that rather well illustrated the extent of the collusion that existed between the authorities and the "authorities" and the disposability of an inconvenient life. Briguglia also contributes well as does Sardo as his strong-willed but increasingly wary mother whilst the writing offers us a lively bedrock for characters that mingled passion with prescience in an entertaining and engaging fashion. The production looks good and it's well worth a watch.

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Status
Released
Original Language
Italian
Budget
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Revenue
$1,805,884.00
Keywords
sicily, italybiographybased on true storypirate radiocounter-culturepolitical activistsicilian mafiaanti-mafiafew against many