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Placido Rizzotto (2000) Characters, Setting & Themes Explained
- Release, runtime and language
- 2000 · 110 mins · Italian
- Directed by
- Pasquale Scimeca
- Starring
- Marcello Mazzarella, Biagio Barone, Melino Imparato, David Coco, Gioia Spaziani, Franco Catalano
After seeing his father wrongfully imprisoned, Placido Rizzotto fights in World War II, first as a soldier then as an anti‑fascist partisan. The experience fuels his opposition to oppression. Returning to his Sicilian village, he confronts Mafia domination, founding a trade union and rallying peasants to collectively reclaim Mafia‑taken farmland.
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