One Hundred Steps (2000)

09/01/2000Drama, History1h 54m
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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.

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    Luigi Lo Cascio

    Peppino Impastato

  2. Cast 1

    Luigi Maria Burruano

    Luigi Impastato

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    Lucia Sardo

    Felicia Impastato

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    Paolo Briguglia

    Giovanni Impastato

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    Tony Sperandeo

    Tano Badalamenti

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    Andrea Tidona

    Stefano Venuti

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    Claudio Gioè

    Salvo Vitale

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    Domenico Centamore

    Vito

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    Antonino Bruschetta

    Anthony

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 constantly conscious that any resistance to the established order could prove perilous. Peppino has all the vigour and irresponsibility of his age and together with some friends sets up a local radio...