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.
- 7.8
- 2000
- Released
- 1h 54m
Luigi Lo Cascio
Peppino Impastato
Luigi Maria Burruano
Luigi Impastato
Lucia Sardo
Felicia Impastato
Paolo Briguglia
Giovanni Impastato
Tony Sperandeo
Tano Badalamenti
Andrea Tidona
Stefano Venuti
Claudio Gioè
Salvo Vitale
Domenico Centamore
Vito
Antonino Bruschetta
Anthony
Paola Pace
Cosima
Pippo Montalbano
Cesare Manzella
Aurora Quattrocchi
Moglie di Cesare ManzellaGaspare Cucinella
Zù Gasparo
Dario Veca
Paolino Schillirò
Lorenzo Randazzo
Peppino BambinoLuigi Billeci
Giovani BambinoReleased
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$1,805,884.00
- #sicily, italy
- #biography
- #based on true story
- #pirate radio
- #counter-culture
- #political activist
- #sicilian mafia
- #anti-mafia
- #few against many
Reviews
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