Salvatore Giuliano

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. In 2008, the film was included on the Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage’s 100 Italian films to be saved, a list of 100 films that "have changed the collective memory of the country between 1942 and 1978." Cast Salvo Randone as President of Viterbo Assize Court Frank Wolff as Gaspare Pisciotta Pietro Cammarata as Salvatore Giuliano Sennuccio Benelli as Reporter Giuseppe Calandra as Minor Official Max Cartier as Francesco Fernando Cicero as Bandit Bruno Ukmar as Spy Cosimo Torino as Frank Mannino Federico Zardi as Pisciotta’s Defense Counsel Francesco Rosi (narration) 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."