The Professor

In 1963, the young man Franco, kills a boy who had harassed his sister Rosaria (Laura del Sol), and ends up in prison. Over the space of 10 years in Poggioreale prison in Naples, he becomes known as 'Oh Professor 'e Vesuviano (Raffaele Cutolo in real life), a powerful, feared and respected figure. With his friends Alfredo Canale (Nicola Di Pinto) and Pasquale Zara "the animal," he creates the criminal organization "Camorra Riformata." All run of the Professor prison cell, the organization grows and spreads until in the 1970s it clashes with the old families of the Camorra, starting the War of the Camorra that will bleed all of South Italy in the 1970s and 1980s. In 1980, an earthquake strikes Naples and the Campania region. Fighting over the flood of government reconstruction money, the Camorrista war continues even more brutally than before. In 1981, the Red Brigades kidnap the regional Assessor Mimmo Mesillo (Piero Vida) (Ciro Cirillo in real life). Members of Mesillo's political party, the Christian Democrats, turn to the Professor to intervene, fearing that Mesillo will confess party secrets. In exchange, the Professor is promised freedom on mental illness grounds, and 3 billion in ransom. The assessor is freed, but taken into custody by the secret services rather than the police. The politicians do not respect the agreement and the Professor is put in the high-security prison of Asinara, by special decree of Italian president Sandro Pertini. This furthers the disintegration of the Professor's organization as his trusted men begin cooperating with the police. His sister Rosaria tries to counteract the damage, but to no avail. In the end, They kill Ciro, a trusted man who had sold out to politicians, by blowing him up in his car and dissolving his woman in acid. After these two killings, he is driven insane, thinking that someday his men will release him.