Excellent Cadavers

Marco Turco

Through the eyes of Alexander Stille, author of the groundbreaking book EXCELLENT CADAVRES: THE MAFIA AND THE DEATH OF THE FIRST ITALIAN REPUBLIC this documentary investigates the relationship between the Mafia and Italian politics. The film is the story of a huge victory against the Mafia, and of the men who made it possible. The central protagonists are two doomed heroes, the Sicilian anti-Mafia prosecutors Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino. Their spectacular assassinations in 1992 are still an open wound in Sicily and throughout the land. The story begins in the post-war years but our focus will be on events leading up to the historic anti-Mafia trials mounted by Falcone and Borsellino in the mid 1980s and early 90s and their aftermath. In Stille's vision, Sicily is the stage for a bloody civil war - fought on one side by the Mafia and on the other by hundreds of brave Sicilians: behind the prosecutors Falcone and Borsellino are law enforcement officials, judges, local political leaders, ordinary men and women. Consistently, the film will show, key figures in the Italian government have effectively supported the wrong side, exposing the other to the Mafia's gunfire.

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EXCELLENT CADAVERS by Marco Turco 2008-04-27

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