Secrets of the State

Secrets of the State

Actors:  Antonio Catania, David Coco, Sergio Graziani, Aldo Puglisi, Francesco Guzzo Directors:  Paolo Benvenuti

On the first of May 1947, the bandit Salvatore Giuliano conducted a raid to the mountain pass Portella della Ginestra, with a view to capturing Sicily's most prominent communist, Giacomo Licausi. What actually happened was a regular massacre, leaving fourteen people dead and more than thirty wounded. In 1951, about a year after Giulano's violent...