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040 _cSILC
041 _aita
_beng
_jeng
046 _k2005
050 _aPN1997
_b.I503 2005
100 _aMarco Turco
240 _aExcellent Cadavers
245 _aIn un altro paese
_bExcellent Cadavers
_cMarco Turco
_h[videorecording]=
246 _aExcellent Cadavers
260 _aItaly
_bDoclab S.r.l.
_b Rai 3
_bFrance 2 Cinéma
_c2005
300 _a1 videodisc (ca. 92 min.)
_bsound, color/b&w.
_c4 3/4 in.
500 _aBased on the 1995 non-fiction book "Excellent Cadavers" by Alexander Stille.
520 _aFrom case cover: "Excellent Cadavers"is a documentary about the real Mafia: not the comical hoods of "The Sopranos"or the tragic warriors of "The Godfather,"but the historic, violent Sicilian gang that has flourished in Italy and the U.S. for more than a century, leaving bloody havoc in its wake. The focus is not on individual Mafiosi but on the Cosa Nostra as a powerful amoral corporate entity, intimately enmeshed with Italian business and politics, and on to brave, unshakably honest prosecutors, Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino, who battled them in courts for years, winning hundreds of convictions, before both were assassinated. If Francis Ford Coppola, in 'The Godfather Trilogy', established the modern myth of the American Mafia as a murderous business tied to parts of the Establishment, director Marco Turco shows the reality of similar relationships in Italy, and indicts the conservative Italian establishment for its tolerance of criminals who trample on laws and lives. Sicily is one of the most picturesque of movie locations, and Turco takes full advantage of that here. One of his main interviewees is the gifted photojournalist Letizia Battaglia, who has recorded the Mafia's violent legacy in Palermo for decades, and he uses her searing black-and-white shots evocatively and well. 'Cadavers' is a rich mine of information on a subject about which it is sometimes too easy to be superficial.
_bFrom IMDB: In the late-80s and early-90s, two prosecutors went after the mob in Sicily. Archival footage, gruesome photographs and new interviews are shown.
538 _aDVD video; Dolby Digital; stereo; NTSC; Region 0; 4:3 fullscreen.
546 _aItalian dialogue with English subtitles.
700 _aMarco Turco
_eDirector
_eScreenwriter
700 _aAlexander Stille
_eAuthor
700 _aVania Del Borgo
_eProducer
700 _aGiuseppe Ayala
_eActor
700 _aLetizia Battaglia
_eActor
700 _aVincenzo Carpineta
_eCinematographer
700 _aStefano Lentini
_eMusician
942 _2lcc
_cDVD