Salvatore Giuliano (film)

Salvatore Giuliano
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Directed by	Francesco Rosi
Produced by	Franco Cristaldi
Written by	Franceso Rosi Suso Cecchi d'Amico Enzo Provenzale Franco Solinas
Starring	Salvo Randone Frank Wolff
Music by	Piero Piccioni
Cinematography	Gianni Di Venanzo
Edited by	Mario Serandrei
Release dates	1962
Running time	123 minutes
Country	Italy
Language	Italian

Salvatore Giuliano is a 1962 Italian film directed by Francesco Rosi. Shot in a neo-realist documentary, non-linear style, it follows the lives of those involved with the famous Sicilian bandit, Salvatore Giuliano. Giuliano is mostly off-screen during the film and appears most notably as a corpse.

Reception

Derek Malcolm called it "almost certainly the best film about the social and political forces that have shaped [Sicily,] that benighted island." Gino Moliterno argued that "Rosi's highly original strategy in this landmark film is to aim at neither an "objective" journalistic documentary nor a fictional recreation but to employ as wide a range of disparate formal and stylistic elements as necessary to conduct a committed search for the truth that becomes, in a sense, its own narrative."

David Gurevich said that "Rosi marries the neo-realist, black-and-white, populist aesthetic to the mad media circus of La Dolce Vita, tosses in some minimalist alienation from Antonioni, makes the film jump back and forth in time without any markers (so that you realize you're back in the present only a few minutes after you're already in a sequence), and makes his despair so infectious that we would probably be disappointed to know the truth." Terrence Rafferty noted that "Salvatore Giuliano manages to sustain an almost impossible balance of immediacy and reflection: it's such an exciting piece of filmmaking that you might not realize until the end that its dominant tone is contemplative, even melancholy."

Director Martin Scorsese listed Salvatore Giuliano as one of his twelve favorite films of all time.

Credited cast

• Salvo Randone as President of Viterbo Assize Court
• Frank Wolff as Gaspare Pisciotta
• Director Francesco Rosi narrated in the Italian version.
• The rest of the cast were non-professional locals.

Crew

• Director: Francesco Rosi
• Writing credits:
  • Suso Cecchi d'Amico
  • Enzo Provenzale
  • Franceso Rosi
  • Franco Solinas
• Producer: Franco Cristaldi

Awards

• Silver Bear for Best Director, 1962
• Silver Ribbon Award for Best Cinematography, 1963
• Silver Ribbon Award for Best Director, 1963
• Silver Ribbon Award for Best Score, 1963

See also

• The Sicilian, a novel by Mario Puzo
• The Sicilian (film), based on the novel, directed by Michael Cimino

Bibliography

• Gesù Sebastiano (a cura di), Francesco Rosi, Giuseppe Maimone Editore, Catania 1993
• Kezich Tullio e Sebastiano Gesù (a cura di), Salvatore Giuliano, Giuseppe Maimone Editore, Catania 1993

External links

• Salvatore Giuliano at IMDb
• Salvatore Giuliano at AllMovie
• Criterion Collection essay by Michel Ciment