One Hundred Days in Palermo

One Hundred Days in Palermo
Directed by	Giuseppe Ferrara
Written by	Giuseppe Tornatore (screenplay)
Produced by	Eric Geiger Alain Pancrazi
Starring	Lino Ventura Giuliana De Sio Lino Troisi Stefano Satta Flores Arnoldo Foà Adalberto Maria Merli
Music by	Vittorio Gelmetti
Release date	6 April 1984 (6 April 1984)
Running time	107 minutes
Country	Italy
Languages	Italian French

One Hundred Days in Palermo (Italian: Cento giorni a Palermo) is a 1984 non-fiction film directed by Giuseppe Ferrara with Giuseppe Tornatore as screenplay writer. The film is a France/Italy coproduction and tells about the last hundred days in the life of the Italian "Generale dei Carabinieri" and anti-mafia highest authority Carlo Alberto Dalla Chiesa as prefect of Palermo, the capital of the Italian island of Sicily. Dalla Chiesa's life ended with his barbaric murder, shot by the machine guns of a mafia squad (along his wife and his bodyguard) on September 3, 1982. The terror is known as Via Carini massacre.

Cast

• Lino Ventura as General Carlo Alberto Dalla Chiesa
• Giuliana De Sio as Emanuela Setti Carraro
• Lino Troisi as Pio La Torre
• Stefano Satta Flores as Captain Fontana
• Arnoldo Foà as Virginio Rognoni
• Andrea Aureli
• Accursio Di Leo
• Adalberto Maria Merli

External links

• One Hundred Days in Palermo at IMDb
• (in French) Cent jours à Palerme presented by www.cinemovies.fr
• (in Italian) Cento giorni a Palermo presented by Italian Yahoo! Cinema