Salvatore Giuliano

IMDb link: 0055399
IMDb rating: 7.3 (5,919 votes)
Genres: Crime, Drama, Mystery, History
Director: Francesco Rosi
Cast: Frank Wolff, Salvo Randone, Frederico Zardi, Pippo Agusta, Sennuccio Benelli and others

Release date: 1 Mar 1962
Release year: 1962
Runtime: 125 minutes
Country: Italy
Keywords: shot in a bed, firefight, post war italy, sentence, judgment, manhunt, character name as title, salvatore giuliano character, two word title, male police officer

Plot:

In 1950, 28-year-old outlaw Salvatore Giuliano is found gunned down in a Sicilian courtyard. Little is as it seems. The film moves back and forth between the late 1940s, when Giuliano and other reprobates were recruited by separatist politicians to do their fighting, and the days leading up to and following Giuliano's death. After Sicily's self-rule is declared, will the outlaws be pardoned as promised? And why does Giuliano order his gang to fire on a peaceful May Day rally? Police, Carabinieri, and Mafia have their uses for him. There's a trial after his death: will the truth come out or does the code of silence help protect those in power?

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