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One Hundred Steps

Peppino Impastato is a quick-witted lad growing up in 1970s Sicily. Despite hailing from a family with Mafia ties and living just one hundred steps from the house of local boss Tano Badalamenti, Peppino decides to expose the Mafia by using a pirate radio station to broadcast his political pronouncements in the form of ironic humour.

Release Date : 2000-09-01

Language :ItalianEnglish

Adult : false

Status : Released

Production Company : Titti FilmTele+RAI Cinema

Production Country : Italy

Alternative Titles : The Hundred Steps

Cast

Character Name : Peppino Impastato

Original Name : Luigi Lo Cascio

Gender : Male

Character Name : Luigi Impastato

Original Name : Luigi Maria Burruano

Gender : Male

Character Name : Felicia Impastato

Original Name : Lucia Sardo

Gender : Female

Character Name : Giovanni Impastato

Original Name : Paolo Briguglia

Gender : Male

Character Name : Tano Badalamenti

Original Name : Tony Sperandeo

Gender : Male

Character Name : Stefano Venuti

Original Name : Andrea Tidona

Gender : Male

Character Name : Salvo Vitale

Original Name : Claudio Gioè

Gender : Male

Character Name : Vito

Original Name : Domenico Centamore

Gender : Male

Character Name : Anthony

Original Name : Ninni Bruschetta

Gender : Male

Character Name : Cosima

Original Name : Paola Pace

Gender : Female

Character Name : Cesare Manzella

Original Name : Pippo Montalbano

Gender : Male

Character Name : Moglie di Cesare Manzella

Original Name : Aurora Quattrocchi

Gender : Female

Character Name : Zù Gasparo

Original Name : Gaspare Cucinella

Gender : Male

Character Name : Paolino Schillirò

Original Name : Dario Veca

Gender : Male

Character Name : Peppino Bambino

Original Name : Lorenzo Randazzo

Gender : Male

Character Name : Giovani Bambino

Original Name : Luigi Billeci

Gender : Male

Reviews

CinemaSerf

@Geronimo1967

2024-12-01

This has quite a poignant underlying message of complicity and compliance as it tells the true story of firebrand young man Peppino Impastato (Luigi Lo Cascio). He lives on a mafia-dominated Sicily in a family led by his acquiescing father Luigi (Luigi Maria Burruano). It's not that his dad is cowardly, far from it, but he has a wife (Lucia Sardo) and another son, Giovanni (Paolo Briguglia), so is constantly conscious that any resistance to the established order could prove perilous. Peppino has all the vigour and irresponsibility of his age and together with some friends sets up a local radio station that mixes a contemporary mix of classic rock music with some fairly direct rantings about the local "don" - comparing him to legendary Sioux chief Sitting Bull holding court over a tribe full of drug users and sleazy hookers. This isn't a gun-toting organisation. It doesn't need to be. It gets it's way by a combination of carrot and stick approaches. If the population co-operate then life can be good, but if they stray from the arbitrary control of "Tano" (Tony Sperandeo) then they might find themselves starring in their own personal version of a Buster Keaton film. Cascio is on strong form here offering us quite a compelling presentation of a young man who genuinely believed that his on-air protestations could elicit change for good and when his family warn him of the risks - to them and to him - that just seems to galvanise him. The conclusion is history; a sad and depressing history that rather well illustrated the extent of the collusion that existed between the authorities and the "authorities" and the disposability of an inconvenient life. Briguglia also contributes well as does Sardo as his strong-willed but increasingly wary mother whilst the writing offers us a lively bedrock for characters that mingled passion with prescience in an entertaining and engaging fashion. The production looks good and it's well worth a watch.