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GORY ROAD Cadavers documents the bloody late '80s showdown between the law and organized crime in Palermo, Sicily
Excellent Cadavers: Riccardo Liberati
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Limited Release: Jul 12, 2006; Rated: Unrated; Length: 92 Minutes; Genre: Documentary
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Owen Gleiberman
Owen Gleiberman is a film critic for EW
It should be no surprise — yet, somehow, it is — that the Mafia looks, feels, and kills much differently in its native Sicily, where it maintains the power of an infected organ in the body politic. Marco Turco's documentary Excellent Cadavers, based on the book by Alexander Stille, chronicles the showdown between prosecutors and mafiosi that, in the '80s and early '90s, turned the city of Palermo into a murderous blood zone. The courageous prosecutors, Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino, sent hundreds of connected men to jail, yet by the end their heroism has been all but wiped away, as has any vestige of glamour linked to the underworld.
Posted Jul 12, 2006
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