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One Hundred Steps

2000 114 min ★ 7.8 Drama, History

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.

Cast

Luigi Lo Cascio

Peppino Impastato

Luigi Maria Burruano

Luigi Impastato

Lucia Sardo

Felicia Impastato

Paolo Briguglia

Giovanni Impastato

Tony Sperandeo

Tano Badalamenti

Andrea Tidona

Stefano Venuti

Claudio Gioè

Salvo Vitale

Domenico Centamore

Vito

Antonino Bruschetta

Anthony

Paola Pace

Cosima

Details

Director

Marco Tullio Giordana

Screenplay

Claudio Fava

Status

Released

Original Language

Revenue

$216,026

Production

Titti Film, RAI Cinema, Tele+, MiC

Reviews

CinemaSerf

December 1, 2024

★ 7/10

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...