One Hundred Days in Palermo
One Hundred Days in Palermo is a 1984 non-fiction film directed by Giuseppe Ferrara with Giuseppe Tornatore as screenplay writer. The film is a France/Italy coproduction and tells about the last hundred days in the life of the Italian "Generale dei Carabinieri" and anti-mafia highest authority Carlo Alberto Dalla Chiesa as prefect of Palermo, the capital of the Italian island of Sicily. Dalla Chiesa's life ended with his barbaric murder, shot by the machine guns of a mafia squad (along his wife and his bodyguard) on September 3, 1982. The terror is known as Via Carini massacre.
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| author | Giuseppe Ferrara Giuseppe Tornatore Riccardo Iacona |
|---|---|
| contentLocation | Sicily |
| director | Giuseppe Ferrara |
| genre | crime political thriller |
| musicBy | Vittorio Gelmetti |
| producer | Alain Pancrazi Eric Geiger |
| recordedAt | Palermo |
| theme | gang political thriller |