Corleone is an Italian town and comune of roughly 11,158 inhabitants in the Metropolitan City of Palermo, in Sicily.
Giuseppe Tornatore is an Italian film director and screenwriter. He is considered one of the directors who brought critical acclaim back to Italian cinema. In a career spanning over 30 years he is best known for directing and writing drama films such as Everybody's Fine, The Legend of 1900, Malèna, Baarìa and The Best Offer. His most noted film is Cinema Paradiso, for which Tornatore won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. He has also directed several advertising campaigns for Dolce & Gabbana.
Carlo Alberto dalla Chiesa was an Italian Carabinieri general, notable for campaigning against terrorism during the Years of Lead. He was assassinated in the Via Carini massacre by the Sicilian Mafia in Palermo.
The Patriarchate of Venice, also sometimes called the Archdiocese of Venice, is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or patriarchal archdiocese of the Catholic Church in Venice, Italy. In 1451 the Patriarchate of Grado was merged with the Bishopric of Castello and Venice to form the Archdiocese of Venice.
Rocco Chinnici was an Italian anti-Mafia magistrate killed by the Sicilian Mafia.
Attilio Ruffini was an Italian politician.
Giuseppe Lucchese, known as Lucchiseddu and Occhi di ghiaccio, is a member of the Sicilian Mafia from the Brancaccio neighborhood in Palermo. He was one of the favourite hitmen of the Corleonesi, headed by Totò Riina, during the Second Mafia War in 1981–84.
Benedetto Santapaola, better known as Nitto, is a prominent mafioso from Catania, the main city and industrial centre on Sicily's east coast. His nickname is il cacciatore, because of his passion for shooting game.
Luigi Maria Burruano was an Italian film, stage and television actor. He began his career in Sicilian-language cabaret and theatre before turning his attention to films.
Days and Clouds is a 2007 Italian drama film directed by Silvio Soldini. It was entered into the 30th Moscow International Film Festival where Margherita Buy won the award for Best Actress.
Emanuela Setti Carraro was an Italian nurse and the wife of General Carlo Alberto dalla Chiesa. Less than two months after the marriage, she was the victim of the Sicilian Mafia in the Via Carini massacre that also killed her husband and the escorting officer Domenico Russo.
Antonino "Ninni" Cassarà was an Italian policeman killed by Cosa Nostra.
Giuseppe Montana,, was an Italian policeman assassinated by the Cosa Nostra.
The Circonvallazione massacre, in Italian Strage della Circonvallazione, is a Cosa Nostra attack that took place on June 16, 1982 on the Palermo ring road. The attack was directed against Catanese boss Alfio Ferlito, who was transferred from Enna to the Trapani jail, and died with the three escort carabinieri and the 22-year-old Giuseppe Di Lavore, the driver of the private company that had the transportation of prisoners, who had replaced his father. The mandators of this massacre were Salvatore Riina and Bernardo Provenzano, in favor to Nitto Santapaola, who was in a year-long war with Ferlito for the predominance on the city of Catania territory.
The Via Carini massacre was a Cosa Nostra attack in which, on September 3, 1982, in the Palermo's via Isidoro Carini, the prefect of Palermo Carlo Alberto Dalla Chiesa, his wife Emanuela Setti Carraro and the escort police officer Domenico Russo were murdered.
Fernando "Nando" dalla Chiesa is an Italian academic and politician, honorary president of Libera, former deputy and senator.
This is a list of Italian television related events from 1992
Lino Troisi was an Italian stage, film, television and voice actor.
The Monument to the Carabinieri, also called Monumento alla Fiamma dei Carabinieri is a steel sculpture located in Piazza Armando Diaz, a central square in Milan, Italy. The monument was created by Italian sculptor Luciano Minguzzi (1911–2004) and is dedicated to the men and women of Carabinieri, the Italian gendarmerie. The flame which inspired the sculpture is a heraldic symbol prominently displayed on the caps of the corp, but it also artistically depicts a grenade, inscribed with the letters IR, and from which curving flames with 13 tips emerge. The flames marks the loyalty, fidelity, ardor and honor that define Carabinieri's service.
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