Placido Rizzotto
The real story of Placido Rizzotto, a trade union leader murdered by the mafia in Sicily in 1948 Drama about mafia and jealousy in post-war Corleone. Placido, the son of Carmelo Rizzotto comes back fr…
Placido Rizzotto
The real story of Placido Rizzotto, a trade union leader murdered by the mafia in Sicily in 1948 Drama about mafia and jealousy in post-war Corleone. Placido, the son of Carmelo Rizzotto comes back from the war armed with a new anti-fascist consciousness but purer than ever of heart. He cannot accept the arrogance of the land managers and the brutal way in which they select those lucky few who will work the fields and whose families will be able to eat. He organizes the peasants and persuades them to occupy the land. His magnetic personality pulls the people in and he looks down on the world from his perch in the wind-swept mountains. He rebels against mafia power, and Placido manages to convince his father that he is right and the mafia is wrong. Luciano the Lame, a promising new recruit to the mafia hates Rizzotto and envies him his fiancee, who also happens to be the daughter of Liggio's lover. It is too easily for the "family" to pass off Placido's death as a crime of passion and honor to take away his fiancee. On the night on 10 March 1948 the Union leader of Corleone disappears and Captain Carlo Alberto Dalla Chiesa investigates. —X The making of a folk legend and hero. The true story of Sicilian trade union organizer Placido Rizzotto's struggle against Mafia corruption and control of the unions, appropriation of land, and exploitation of peasant workers during the early days of the Corleonese Mafia in the late 1940s. —Anonymous
Placido Rizzotto
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The real story of Placido Rizzotto, a trade union leader murdered by the mafia in Sicily in 1948 Drama about mafia and jealousy in post-war Corleone. Placido, the son of Carmelo Rizzotto comes back from the war armed with a new anti-fascist consciousness but purer than ever of heart. He cannot accept the arrogance of the land managers and the brutal way in which they select those lucky few who will work the fields and whose families will be able to eat.
He organizes the peasants and persuades them to occupy the land. His magnetic personality pulls the people in and he looks down on the world from his perch in the wind-swept mountains. He rebels against mafia power, and Placido manages to convince his father that he is right and the mafia is wrong.
Luciano the Lame, a promising new recruit to the mafia hates Rizzotto and envies him his fiancee, who also happens to be the daughter of Liggio's lover. It is too easily for the "family" to pass off Placido's death as a crime of passion and honor to take away his fiancee. On the night on 10 March 1948 the Union leader of Corleone disappears and Captain Carlo Alberto Dalla Chiesa investigates.
—X The making of a folk legend and hero. The true story of Sicilian trade union organizer Placido Rizzotto's struggle against Mafia corruption and control of the unions, appropriation of land, and exploitation of peasant workers during the early days of the Corleonese Mafia in the late 1940s. —Anonymous.