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25 years ago the mafia killed Giovanni Falcone: movies to remind him

Giovanni Falcone

District: Sicily
Province: Palermo (PA)
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Date: 2017-05-23

25 years ago the mafia killed Giovanni Falcone: the movies to remind him

Giovanni Falcone

On May 23, 1992 Giovanni Falcone, his wife Francesca Morvillo and a escort of three men (Antonio Montinaro, Rocco Di Cillo and Vito Schifani) were killed by the mafia in Capaci in a fierce and terrible attack.

57 days later in Palermo, Paolo Borsellino, another magistrate involved in the fight against the mafia, will be killed in a summer that was one of the toughest moments of our country's democracy.

The story of Giovanni Falcone, intertwined with that of Paol Borsellino, has been at the center of numerous films and television fiction. We recall some of them, as a contribution to keep memory alive of a great Italian hero.

Giovanni Falcone (1993) by Giuseppe Ferrara

Giovanni Falcone is played by Michele Placido.

It tells of the true story of Judge Giovanni Falcone, his last years of work (he is talking about 1981-1992), the fight against the mafia, which will lead him to lose his life in the massacre of Capaci on May 23, 1992.

Judges - Excellent Cadavers (1999) by Ricky Tognazzi

Played by Chazz Palminteri (Giovanni Falcone) and F. Murray Abraham is taken from the novel In the Land of the Unfaithfuls by Alexander Stille (1995).

Paolo Borsellino (2004) by Gianluca Maria Tavarelli

Television miniseries aired on Canale 5. Set in Palermo, tells the story from 1980 to 1992 of the anti-mafia pool of judges Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino, under the leadership of Rocco Chinnici, and later by Judge Antonino Caponnetto, in the desperate and committed war against the mafia.

Giovanni Falcone is played by Ennio Fantastichini.

Giovanni Falcone

In another country (2005) by Marco Turco

Documentary that tells the story of Cosa Nostra, and its interweaving with politics, from the seventies of the twentieth century to the present. Contains library images of Giovanni Falcone.

Giovanni Falcone, the man who challenged Cosa Nostra (2006) by Andrea and Antonio Frazzi

Television Miniseries. Massimo Dapporto plays Giovanni Falcone and Elena Sofia Ricci his wife Francesca Morvillo.

The Chief of the Heads (2007) by Enzo Monteleone and Alexis Sweet

A TV miniseries aired on Channel 5 and centered on Totò Riina's figure. This miniseries aroused many controversies ; more than somebody pointed out that "some fiction may be damaging because they create a positive iconography of mafiosi." Giovanni Falcone is played by Andrea Tidona.

Giovanni Falcone

It was summer (2016) by Fiorella Infascelli

Giovanni Falcone is played by Massimo Popolizio. Among other actors Giuseppe Fiorello, Valeria Solarino, Claudia Potenza, Elisabetta Piccolomini.

Asinara, 1985. On a night as many disembark on the island Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino with their own families. The transfer is sudden, fast, there is not even time to luggage, because the threat, intercepted by the Uccardone Carabinieri, is serious: an attack on the two judges and their family members from the tops of Cosa Nostra. It is a hot summer, as they have not seen for a long time, and in the small Cala D'Oliva guest house, the two magistrates and their families live completely isolated from the small community of Asinara civilians, watched by the prison guards.

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