Excellent Cadavers (film)

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Excellent Cadavers
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Directed by Ricky Tognazzi
Written byPeter Pruce
Based on Excellent Cadavers (1995)
by Alexander Stille
Produced by Renato Izzo
David Nichols
Starring Chazz Palminteri
Cinematography Alessio Gelsini Torresi
Edited byRoberto Silvi
Music by Michael Tavera
Distributed by HBO Pictures
Release date
  • 1999 (1999)
Running time
86 minutes
Countries Italy
United States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$1,500,000

Excellent Cadavers (Italian : I giudici, and also known as "Falcone") [1] is a 1999 television film directed by Ricky Tognazzi. [2]

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The film is based on the book with the same name by Alexander Stille and tells the real life events of judge Giovanni Falcone. It was filmed in Palermo and Rome. [3]

The TV movie was broadcast by HBO October 16, 1999. [3]

Plot

In 1978, Judge Giovanni Falcone, while in Favignana attending a mattanza, learns that he has been transferred from the court of Trapani to that of Palermo. There, the investigating judge Gaetano Costa, a friend of Falcone, is assassinated just two months before retirement. After the death of his colleague, Falcone is assigned a bodyguard, Mario Fabbri. In 1984, he interrogates Tommaso Buscetta.

Falcone would then have to fight, alongside his friend and colleague Paolo Borsellino, against Totò Riina and Cosa Nostra, but also against the growing hostility directed at him—even from other magistrates. Both Sicilian judges would lose their lives in two separate attacks, both in 1992.

Cast

References

  1. ↑ Roberto Nepoti (August 30, 2000). "La storia di Giovanni Falcone". La Repubblica . Retrieved July 3, 2012.
  2. ↑ "Variety Reviews - Excellent Cadavers". Variety . October 14, 1999. Retrieved July 3, 2012.
  3. 1 2 Barbara D.Phillp (October 16, 1999). "Excellent Cadavers' Looks At Mafia ". Lakeland Ledger . Retrieved July 3, 2012.
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