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Salvatore Giuliano (film)
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Wikipedia article
'Salvatore Giuliano' is a 1962 Italian film directed by Francesco Rosi. Shot in a neo-realist documentary, non-linear style, it follows the lives of those involved with the famous Sicilian bandit Salvatore Giuliano. Giuliano is mostly off-screen during the film and appears most notably as a corpse.
Reception
Derek Malcolm called it "almost certainly the best film about the social and political forces that have shaped Sicily, 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."
David Gurevich said that "Rosi marries the neo-realist, black-and-white, populist aesthetic to the mad media circus of 'La Dolce Vita', tosses in some minimalist alienation from Antonioni, 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." Terrence Rafferty 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 Martin Scorsese 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
* Director Francesco Rosi provided narration in the Italian version.
* Most of the other cast members were non-professional locals.
'Known uncredited cast members:'
* Pietro Cammarata as Salvatore Giuliano
* Sennuccio Benelli as Reporter
* Giuseppe Calandra as Minor Official
* Max Cartier as Francesco
* Fernando Cicero as Bandit
* Bruno Ukmar as Spy
* Cosimo Torino as Frank Mannino
* Federico Zardi as Pisciottas Defense Counsel
* The Citizens of Castelvetrano, Montelepre, and Palermo, Sicily 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, 1962
*Silver Ribbon Award for Best Cinematography, 1963
*Silver Ribbon Award for Best Director, 1963
*Silver Ribbon Award for Best Score, 1963
See also
*'Salvatore Giuliano', a 1986 Italian opera by Lorenzo Ferrero
*'The Sicilian', a novel by Mario Puzo based on the life of Salvatore Giuliano
*'The Sicilian', a film based on the novel, directed by Michael Cimino
References
Bibliography
*Ges Sebastiano (a cura di), 'Francesco Rosi', Giuseppe Maimone Editore, Catania 1993
*Kezich Tullio e Sebastiano Ges (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
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