I Cento Passi
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Film analysis: “I cento ” passi Lecture1: Intro and historical social/ context Lecture 2: Mise en scéne Lecture 3: Editing Lecture 4: Sound, Shooting technique, etc The Sicilian Maia in the 1960s/70s Leonardo Sciascia author ( of Il giorno della civetta, 1962), in his essay 'La ma_iaL%I1E57): Il fatto è che in Sicilia la maEia 1#una for7a8 indubbiamente in conati di sopravviven7a, a meno che non riesca a portare a completamento e a perfezione la trasforma7ione che pare sia in atto. Se dal latifondo riuscir= a migrare e a consolidarsi nella citt=, se riuscira ad accagliarsi intomo alla burocra7ia regionale, se riuscir= ad inEiltrarsi. (vol. Ill, p. 1185) The fact is that the MaEia in Sicily is still powerful a force: itGs 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 inEiltrate 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 I cento passi Urbanization the mafiosi’s past – Palermo’s airport Control of local economy: protection, racketeering the bosses’ power Alliance with corrupted politicians the mayor, the police Building industry and public contracts airport, motorway Cinisi % Cinisi: about%41,000%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 R Father,%12igi Impastato , cousin Cesare of %Manzella, close friend of Badalamenti% Gaetano R Bor'%"n Cinisi, 5 January 1948 R 1E65XF7%“1Yidea%socialista”,%polemics%with%PCI%IStefano%Venuti)%and%leaves%home% R 1E72%political%militancy% %%ILotta continua, Mauro Rostagno, k.1988) R 1975 Musica%-%cultura% R 1977 Radio Aut: “Onda%pazSa”% R 1978 candidate aemocraSia% for Proletaria at Council elections% R E%May%1E78:%murdered% % %%Investigation: Rocco Chinnici , k. 1983 1EE2%Nase closed%% 1EE6%Nas-%3eopened% % % %% 2002%Badalamenti%sentenced%for%murder%.