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(HELICOPTER ROAR)

00:02:25,039 With the firm will to act as an honorable person

all my duty...

00:02:34,719 00:02:36,480 00:02:39,880

Say "I swear."

(together) I swear.

00:02:52,439 00:02:55,439 00:02:58,440 (INAUDIBLE WORDS)

As for you...

...I would like to wish you a happy birthday.

I wish you peace, Mr. President.

(INDISTINCT NOISE)

00:03:42,440 I've never done it in my life.

But didn't you do the military service?

No, they reformed me.

Do you like it?

What do you say, is it too elegant?

I brought some flowers.

Paper.

Did you bring a Polaroid with you?

00:05:31,880 You keep these.

Now we are in prison too.

-Shall we have the jurors come? -I'll go and call them.

No, wait a minute.

Look here.

(CAMPANELLA)

I brought it from home.

- The bell? - The bell.

(BELL) Oh my God! What's happening?

Maybe they're calling us?

President. Judge.

00:06:11,959 00:06:13,599 - Thanks. - Everything's fine.

Well.

At that time...

...we will have our meals here.

00:06:24,440 00:06:28,600 00:06:32,000 The world will remain outside these walls.

Here we can have neither radio nor television.

We cannot receive letters, parcels.

No contact with our families.

00:06:46,680 00:06:49,239 I'll only use it to call the chancery

when we are ready to read the sentence.

We will work every day from 8:00 in the morning to 20:00 in the evening

with a break for lunch.

00:07:02,399 00:07:03,719 We have a cook.

Of absolute trust, of the Ministry of Justice,

so that no one can touch our food and possibly poison it.

We will never be able to meet him.

00:07:17,720 We should be on our own.

I brought a suitcase full of medicines,

for any type of discomfort.

00:07:31,239 No. The door we entered through must remain closed.

No one can go out and no one can come in.

00:07:41,919 00:07:44,679 practically all the work done... would go up in smoke.

00:07:48,959 No, no, I can't do it, I can't do it.

Open this door!

- RENATO: Maria Nunzia. - Let me out immediately.

00:07:56,840 - Call the replacement. - Maria Nunzia.

We cannot call any replacement.

They were fired this morning

before we entered the council chamber.

(PANTS)

With...

Are...

You don't have to do that, there's nothing to be afraid of.

Now we go to the room,

let's have a chat and everything will pass.

- MARIA NUNZIA: No, nothing happens. - Yes, of course.

(MARIA NUNZIA CRIES)

Let's go.

She starts crying.

There is nothing to be afraid of.

She is a wonderful person.

00:09:16,599 00:09:19,879 00:09:21,719 00:09:24,159 00:09:26,639 - Here's the pasta. 00:09:30,119 00:09:33,759 00:09:36,439 Anyway, for a little while we'll be like one big family.

We sleep under the same roof, we eat at the same table.

We also hope we like each other.

00:09:45,519 00:09:48,560 00:09:52,439 Maria Nunzia from Caccamo, you from Palermo, I from Cefalù.

Cefalù?

In Cefalù they have a beautiful painting by Antonello Da Messina.

- Is it true or not? - Oh yes, it's beautiful.

"Portrait of a Sailor".

A small, small, but so exciting painting,

with such a mocking smile.

A true masterpiece.

Anyway, getting back to us, it's precisely this fact of being so different

which will help us do our job well.

Which is not easy at all.

00:10:22,960 - Please, have a seat. - Thank you.

No, no, thanks.

Everything OK?

During the process...

...I was thinking about how long we would have to stay here,

closed, without air.

And then, I had an idea.

But his desserts are good.

I made these for us last night.

Follow me.

It was a little battle.

Why the project variant had to be approved

by the President of the Court of Palermo.

Here was a simple window.

And now...

...gentlemen, you may leave.

Go out?

It's not very big, but at least we can breathe.

It's a beautiful surprise.

But won't it be dangerous to stay outside?

Yes, so now they're bombing us from above.

Well, they built the walls of the bunker classroom to be missile-proof.

It means that there was some risk.

It is true.

But we are inside the Ucciardone prison,

and since we started the process

this is the safest place in Italy.

But have you ever seen a sky like this?

It is the privilege of being in the Ucciardone garden.

The starry sky above me...

...the moral law within me.

(CHIRPING)

00:12:11,959 FRANCESCA: We're starting today. It's Abbate Giovanni's turn, here he is.

- Cell 18, I remember it very well. 00:12:16,079 The President is running.

"With his brother Abbate Giuseppe they own a citrus grove."

"He defends, the lawyer Coppi."

I'd like to do yoga. I know the President has been doing it for years.

This lawyer, Coppi, defends a lot of them. He's a famous lawyer.

00:12:34,960 But don't you miss your students?

Okay, yes.

I once went to visit them with an escort.

I won't tell you what the Greek teacher's face looked like.

who replaces me.

00:12:51,520 00:12:54,600 Welcome to the council chamber.

We've known each other for two years now.

Now it is up to us, third-party judges, to judge.

This is the last stretch we will travel together.

00:13:10,400 That with God's help...

...we hope we can complete it.

Nail.

When we started this process...

...some people still claimed that the mafia didn't even exist.

00:13:31,199 00:13:33,880 From Abbate Giovanni to Zito Benedetto.

Let's get started.

At that time...

...Abbot John.

00:13:48,040 00:13:50,959

00:13:57,560 one of the most ferocious killers of Cosa Nostra, Filippo Marchese.

00:14:02,280 the Abbate of belonging to Cosa Nostra?

The repentant Salvatore Contorno declares this.

PRESIDENT: Here.

This is an important point.

You see...

...the statements of the repentants have allowed

that this process be held.

But now the sentences or acquittals that we will give

they need to be supported by evidence and feedback.

In our case, for example, the fact that a well-known mafioso

he went to an apartment, shared with his brother,

does not constitute proof of membership in Cosa Nostra.

00:14:40,319 That the defendant is not guilty.

00:14:47,039 also on trial for drug trafficking.

PRESIDENT: Yes, but this accusation is also devoid of any evidence,

00:14:55,599 00:14:58,439 00:15:00,120 It's an assumption.

Which as far as I'm concerned will never be accepted by this Court.

Right, Judge?

00:15:11,479 We started with a guy who gets away with it.

00:15:15,440 We started with an innocent.

In a trial, there are only guilty and innocent.

00:15:31,039 00:15:33,119 Don't forget this is my office.

since the trial began.

And now you've had a nice big bed brought to you.

And I have to open a sofa every night.

Handsome.

Are you praying?

I think it's from the 17th century.

My confessor gave it to me.

A Jesuit father.

He is the one who gave me strength and serenity

to face this process.

We differ on this too.

When I wanted to have the crucifix placed in the classroom at my own expense,

you didn't agree so much.

I am a believer too.

But in the Italian Republic justice is not administered

in the name of God.

Our Constitution says so.

(PRESIDENT: You saw me as a strange character.)

("But this is not a criminal lawyer, he comes from the civil sector.")

("She has curious habits, she does yoga.")

(And in your eyes I did not have the stature of a man of command.)

(JUDGE: On the other hand, you have a very high opinion of yourself.)

(PRESIDENT: Anyway, yes, look, I meditate.)

(Nail.)

(recorder) MAN: The commission at the time was composed of...

JUDGE: A chief, a deputy chief, and some advisers.

Below them, a capodecina...

...with his soldiers.

(recorder) MAN: ...and the soldiers he commands.

Above these families, leadership...

A district chief...

...provincial.

The command body of this organization

it is called...

..."Cupola".

(recorder) MAN: The head of the commission was, in 1980,

00:17:36,920 And he is the supreme leader of the organization.

Tommaso Buscetta introduced us to a world...

...which has always been shrouded in darkness...

...and he did so with unexpected authority.

He has never been a leader, on the contrary, he has always defined himself

a simple soldier.

00:17:57,160 ...it leaves us breathless.

No one could even imagine that, here in our city,

a criminal organization existed and thrived

so powerful. - A perfectly democratic system.

A state within a state.

00:18:14,479 With hundreds and hundreds of victims.

00:18:20,759 ...to take the next bullets.

No, Mr. President?

Let's continue.

But why did you decide to become a lay judge?

This?

But I'm someone who has spent her whole life in Caccamo

to deliver children. I was curious.

Also out of a sense of duty, as a citizen.

And you ended up in this hell.

Of course, I didn't expect that.

I was overwhelmed.

And what about you? Did you do it because you studied law?

Also.

But the truth is, I've spent my whole life as a recluse too, you know?

In a house with only women, mother, wife, sisters, mother's friends,

friends of the wife, friends of the sisters.

So you were a juror at Maxi because you wanted to stay

among men?

Because they were always men.

The defendants, the lawyers, the journalists.

Have you ever seen a woman, you?

But on the jury, at least, we're even, right?

Yes, yes, that's true.

But the two most important...

...they are always men.

(INDISTINCT VOICES AND SCREAMS)

I felt...

They are.

But where were you?

It's late.

I got some air.

Yes, I understand, but if you're not there I can't sleep.

Unfortunately, there are two of us in this room.

"Unfortunately"?

I don't have anything against you,

but with the fact that they force us into this forced coexistence.

NUNZIA: Well, we're not on vacation.

Yes, I understand, but after two years of serving the State

I was expecting at least a room of my own.

Then again, I repeat, it's not something against you, I'm not used to it.

NUNZIA: And I do.

I've never had a room of my own,

until I got married.

I slept in the dining room, which was actually the kitchen.

In the evening I opened a wardrobe and pulled down the bed.

Sorry, I didn't mean to offend you.

It's just that we're all together all day, locked up,

without being able to open a window, only with artificial air,

you can't smell a thing, you can't hear a sound!

But didn't you ever realize during the trial what we were up against?

What does it mean to be a lay judge?

Move only with an escort.

To be constantly afraid.

And you complain because we sleep two in one room?

My life has completely changed.

Think that in my town, in Caccamo, I made them all born

and now half of them don't say hello to me anymore.

00:21:27,399 Brusca is the representative of the family of San Giuseppe Iato

within the commission, the body which, as we know,

establishes the murders to be committed.

And according to the prosecution, Brusca is to be considered the instigator

of at least 40 of these murders.

The prosecution in fact claims that those who are part of the commission

is automatically responsible for all decisions made.

First, the murders.

The question, however, that we must ask ourselves, instead, is the following:

and that is to say whether we can be sure that those who are part of the commission

he is present at the meetings every time

and each time approves the decisions taken by the commission.

00:22:05,879 of the decision to kill, I'll give you an example, Stefano Bontale?

Who was his greatest enemy?

I just want to say that it is not sufficiently proven.

Well, we have some evidence.

00:22:17,359 00:22:19,720 - There are a lot of clues. 00:22:21,320 ...Judge.

Not evidence.

JUDGE: But what do you expect?

Was there a notary at the commission meetings?

And maybe they put everything on stamped paper?

00:22:39,760 couldn't they have warned him? - But how? By phone?

Mafiosi don't talk about serious matters on the phone.

and in fact we have no interceptions that prove the opposite.

JUDGE: So we have to acquit him of all these crimes?

00:22:52,840 Due to insufficient evidence.

And it won't be the only case.

I started studying the other requests for life imprisonment

and I have some serious doubts...

...also on Calò Giuseppe.

Mr. President, I remember the list of murders.

which you contested to Calò during the interrogation.

60 or 65.

00:23:20,239 00:23:22,239 00:23:25,319 because in all these years Calò wasn't even in Palermo,

he lived in Rome.

From where, however, he directed the affairs of Cosa Nostra.

On this, Buscetta was very clear.

I must remind you that the statements of the collaborators

justice is not enough.

But if they are reliable and agree with each other,

they rise to the dignity of proof.

00:23:40,520 00:23:42,480 For me the session is concluded.

With permission.

Okay...

...before handing out a life sentence, you have to think a hundred times.

A person is locked up in prison for life.

00:24:05,159 00:24:07,919 00:24:09,599 You wouldn't have even gone to Spain.

Of course not.

00:24:15,399 And Calò, then!

00:24:19,559 00:24:21,800 He told her to her face, in front of us.

"You made it with your own hands."

00:24:28,760 scrupulously. Is that true, Mr. Judge?

Excuse me.

(THEY KNOCK AT THE DOOR)

(DOOR ALARM)

(DOOR OPENS)

You managed to disorient the jurors.

They don't know what to think anymore.

Do you want to derail the process?

Does respecting the law mean failing the process for you?

The opposite would seem true to me.

00:25:04,119 like Brusca and Calò.

00:25:07,320 00:25:09,679 00:25:10,759 Again?

If we don't have the evidence, for us,

Brusca Bernardo cannot be convicted.

Bernardo Brusca.

But do you realize who you're talking about?

That's one of the founders of Cosa Nostra, a recognized boss.

How can you think he was unaware

of the commission's decisions?

Moral complicity is enough to accuse him of murder.

00:25:34,640 00:25:36,999 ...we will not give life sentences,

it will seem that prosecuting the mafia is useless.

00:25:43,880 We are not putting the mafia on trial.

We are trying individuals,

Article 27 of the Constitution says so.

So Pippo Calò didn't know he would be killed

the Prefect of Palermo, Carlo Alberto Dalla Chiesa,

Captain Basile, Commissioner Boris Giuliano, Calogero Zucchetto.

Mr. President, yours is a formalistic obstinacy,

who refuse to understand that this is a war!

Very good.

Are wars fought in the courts?

Answers.

You told me yourself...

...that you felt guilty for almost not noticing

of all those dead.

And now you don't want to punish two of the main culprits

of that massacre?

If they are not sentenced to life imprisonment,

those will be out again in some time...

...and they will continue to kill.

The law does not provide for preventive sentences.

And it states that if there is even one doubt...

...it's better to have a criminal on the outside than an innocent person on the inside.

Okay, we'll do it as you say.

Also because we can't block the council chamber.

You are the President.

It is you who takes responsibility for leaving unpunished

00:26:57,519 Do you realize what you're accusing me of?

00:27:02,239 and not to life imprisonment, I will never write it.

You write it yourself!

(IN AUDIBLE SOUNDS)

(HARMONICA SOUND)

(CONTINUOUS HARMONIC SOUND)

(CONTINUOUS HARMONIC SOUND)

(CONTINUOUS HARMONIC SOUND)

00:28:31,839 Don't mention it, I have to use the knife,

We don't even have fish cutlery.

If only they could see me at the club cleaning fish like this.

MARIA NUNZIA: Oh! Oh!

The prawn has left!

(LAUGHTER)

- Look, you don't have to do it that way. So... - No.

...first of all the head comes off, but without effort,

delicately, with style.

00:28:54,519 Here I am.

Ah, Mr. President, try these prawns from Mazara del Vallo.

00:29:01,280 No, but sorry, but this can't be done.

You can't eat prawns at taxpayers' expense.

00:29:13,200 I think that's enough with the special requests.

From today we eat whatever the chef decides to cook.

Good continuation.

00:29:31,559 Aren't we going to eat them?

00:29:36,639 00:29:39,719 00:29:42,520 Besides, these prawns are eaten everywhere here.

The sea.

I couldn't live without the sea.

I have to go there for at least half an hour every day.

Since I've been a lay judge I can only go on Sundays

and with the escort. - Think about me, I haven't been to the movies for two years.

I went there almost every afternoon.

Even twice on Saturdays.

00:30:04,519 Whose?

Frank Capra, the director!

The greatest! Do you know where he was born?

70 kilometers from here, in Bisacquino.

And you play the harmonica because you saw it in a movie?

00:30:19,840 00:30:23,039 (recorder) MAN: When I came back, he said to me:

"Don't ask, buddy, until the situation is over,"

"Don't tell anyone."

00:30:36,679 00:30:40,399 00:30:42,799

00:30:46,959 00:30:49,559 00:30:54,359 00:30:55,919 00:30:59,319 00:31:01,719 (OVERLAP WORDS)

00:31:07,039 00:31:08,159 00:31:10,519 00:31:12,399 00:31:14,719 00:31:16,759 00:31:18,439 00:31:19,799 (OVERLAP WORDS)

00:31:27,479 00:31:29,799 00:31:33,400 that Giuseppe Calò be sentenced to 23 years and a 200 million fine...

...for mafia association and drug trafficking.

Then...

...there are murders.

60.

The President...

...as in the case of Bernardo Brusca...

...believes that insufficient evidence has emerged

of Calò's direct involvement in the aforementioned murders.

He therefore proposes acquittal due to insufficient evidence.

PRESIDENT: Exactly.

What do you think?

Do you agree?

00:32:07,959 I believe that the testimonies of Buscetta and the other witnesses

are more than enough to sentence Calò to life imprisonment.

So since we think differently about this defendant,

we must proceed to the vote by show of hands.

Well.

At that time...

...who agrees with life imprisonment?

Who doesn't agree?

00:32:42,759 00:32:44,440 00:32:48,160 00:33:03,999 00:33:05,999 Buscetta accused him of terrible things,

the Judge was right.

He really deserved life imprisonment.

Yes, maybe that's true, you're right.

Imagine, I cried when my mother wrung the chickens' necks.

What do chickens have to do with it now?

We've been talking about deaths and blood since this morning.

How many days have we been locked up in here?

Five.

- But what day is it today? - The 15th.

There's one month left.

To what?

My daughter. She's getting married next month.

Real?

Do you know what he told me before saying goodbye?

"Mom, you see I'm getting married, eh?"

"If you're there, you're there; if you're not, it's all the same."

What a character!

Imagine that my husband and I were about to leave for Jerusalem.

When they called me...

...we said to ourselves: "As soon as it's over we'll leave."

(in dialect) He's been waiting for two years!

00:34:03,600 could not see the lookout man from that distance.

But look carefully.

It is entirely plausible that from here, from the car at the top of the overpass,

you could see the lookout, there, on the terrace.

Then Contorno, continuing, manages to see the other lookout too.

Positioned here, in front of the gate.

00:34:27,919 said Scarpuzzo, and Beppino Lucchese,

two of the most ferocious killers of Cosa Nostra.

Kalashnikov shots are fired from the motorbike.

Contorno throws himself on the body of the child sitting next to him,

he's a... a little friend of his son.

00:34:42,680

Perhaps the only survivor of an attack by the Corleonesi.

00:34:51,880 He saved it.

00:34:56,719 But do you remember the lawyer of one of the mafiosi?

that to put him in difficulty

did he ask him what Scarpuzzedda was dressed like?

00:35:04,279 "Do you think that while you're shooting at me"

"I'll see what color tie you're wearing."

00:35:10,959 because if Contorno's testimony collapsed,

Buscetta's also collapsed.

00:35:20,080 ...helps us understand that Totuccio Contorno told the truth.

And this is a very important thing...

...because it means we can accept...

...all the statements he made during the trial.

00:35:46,200 Thank you.

Think how many dead people there are in here.

Eh! There must be about thirty of them in the Contorno folder alone.

among relatives and friends who killed him.

They even killed the doctor who treated him after the attack.

00:36:09,079 French?

Franca? Are you okay?

Yes, yes, I just need some air.

- Wait, I'll walk you. - No, no.

It's okay, I can do it on my own, just finish.

(HELICOPTER ROAR)

00:36:52,160 Think about it, my son just received his confirmation.

Did you call him?

What are you saying? No.

I just said he was confirmed. That's all.

You don't believe me?

Not entirely.

Let's listen.

Know that I am not willing to accept lessons from anyone,

nor from you.

In my house we have always eaten bread and Law.

My father, my grandfather, all magistrates in the family.

And as far as I'm concerned, it's not even true.

that I didn't do criminal justice because I was a praetorian in Salemi,

Deputy Prosecutor in Palermo, six years with Judge Scaglione.

And then, excuse me, how many of your illustrious criminal lawyer friends

have they accepted the thankless task of presiding over this process?

No one, only I accepted it.

We are not talking about that.

- And then don't play the victim. - The victim?

Good! Tell me to my face what you think of me.

You know very well that there were things about you that I didn't like.

Oh, yeah? And which ones, for example?

For example, when you accused me of stealing your documents

to make myself look good at the trial.

And from that day on you blocked my access to the chancellor's office.

And then it turned out the documents were on your bathroom windowsill.

You left them there thanks to your distraction.

And of course, because thanks, instead, to your commendable discipline

this process would never have even begun.

You can say it loudly. I came to court with a leg out of use,

two broken ribs, stuffed with painkillers

and all to ensure you always find what you need.

But you never acknowledged it to me because you are vain,

ungrateful and have infinite self-esteem.

Never as much as the one you have of yourself.

He didn't call.

00:38:44,639 00:38:48,159 In one of their estates, the Favarella, Michele Greco,

the patriarch cultivates his specialty, the late mandarin.

So called because it ripens in March.

And in the Favarella woods...

...Michele...

...he devotes himself to his other great passion, hunting.

Many members of Palermo's upper class take part in his jokes,

entrepreneurs, professionals, state representatives.

But the fullest bag is always his,

because Don Michele Greco is an exceptional shooter.

His passion is shooting birds.

But you must not think that this man who is slaughtering little birds

and little animals is an evil and insensitive person, on the contrary,

00:39:31,639 00:39:34,360 Cardinal Ruffini was often seen at Favarella.

I wonder if he shoots birds too.

00:39:40,840 Yes, that's right.

The one who declared that the mafia does not exist,

which is an invention of the communists.

And then, there's the new generation.

The young Giuseppe Greco.

But he doesn't like hunting, he... he's an artist,

he went to Rome to make films, he became a producer.

His masterpiece is called "Cream, Chocolate and Paprika".

This is what you see from the outside,

the bright face of the moon.

But the moon also has another face, right?

The one that nobody sees.

Buscetta and Contorno told us about it.

And to hear what they say,

it's hard to believe they're talking about the same person.

But it's him.

That old gentleman who walks at sunset, among his mandarins,

for whom he has almost paternal care.

He, the patriarch, Don Michele Greco, the friend of the cardinals.

But is he really the ruthless killer Buscetta and Contorno talk about?

What they call a puppet in the hands of Totò Riina.

He who in his estate does not only host hunting parties

but it also has a heroin refinery.

It gives me the shivers...

...to think it's him...

...the instigator of many murders that have bloodied Palermo.

I want to list a few for you.

July '79...

...Boris Giuliano, head of the Palermo Flying Squad.

September '79, Cesare Terranova, magistrate.

January 1980, Piersanti Mattarella, President of the Sicilian Region.

May '80, Emanuele Basile, Carabinieri officer.

00:41:22,199 00:41:23,279 00:41:25,559 July '83, Rocco Chinnici, magistrate.

July '85, Giuseppe Montana, head of the Arrest Office

of the Palermo Flying Squad.

August '85, Ninni Cassarà, head of the Palermo Flying Squad.

And many, many, many...

...many others.

00:41:46,720 ...he wished us peace, do you remember?

"I wish you peace..."

"..may it accompany you for the rest of your life."

Eternal peace, he wished us.

Well...

...the accusations of Buscetta and Contorno have been amply confirmed

during the trial.

Therefore, if there is one who deserves life imprisonment,

this is definitely Mr. Michele Greco.

No less than Bernardo Brusca would have deserved

and Pippo Calò.

For us, the worst is yet to come.

Because now we too are the ones who decide their fate.

Yes, maybe... now they're being good because...

...they're waiting to see what we do, but then what?

When will it all be over?

How many life sentences have we given out? How many years in prison?

Underneath all this is our signature.

They managed to kill policemen, magistrates...

...imagine how long it takes them to finish us off.

00:42:49,560 Yes, but how long will we have it?

The mafia has the memory of elephants.

00:42:57,360 00:42:59,760 A scary thing.

Then I unplugged the phone.

But my husband was impressed.

He was terribly scared.

He wanted me to drop the trial and leave Palermo.

Eventually, he bought himself a gun and went to the shooting range for months.

00:43:19,519 00:43:20,799 Yes.

It is true.

And I also remember that he was very worried.

You see...

...I understand the pressure you feel under.

But... believe me...

...it's just people like you

which allow justice to take its course.

00:43:46,039 as soon as I leave here, I'll be afraid of everyone I meet on the street.

I'll think, 'Now this is one of them and he's going to shoot me.'

Francesca is right, they are among us.

Think about how many of your famous circle there will be.

My gas station attendant is one of our defendants,

we have already sentenced him, for goodness' sake, to a light sentence,

but as soon as it comes out?

He knows me, he knows my daughters very well.

We have to stay calm,

we are all under the protection of the state.

Yes, but the President has three escort cars,

He always goes around armed, but what about us?

We have to keep our nerves.

One day my son left the house, as usual.

They rang the intercom and a voice said:

"You know when children go out but you don't know when they come back."

00:44:27,160 00:44:34,880 (INDISTINCT NOISE)

(INDISTINCT NOISE)

00:46:14,160 00:46:18,480 I had a terrible dream.

They came in and...

...and they killed us all.

They shot me in the mouth like that.

00:46:37,440 We don't choose our dreams.

No.

The truth is, I'm scared shitless.

A fucking fear.

And you don't know how ashamed I am.

00:47:07,800 Is it true that you go around unarmed?

Me instead...

Guard.

But how do you do it?

Even your friend Falcone always has a gun in his pocket.

I know he keeps it under his pillow at night.

Nevertheless...

...has ten men as escort.

The loggerhead under the house.

Even Giovanni Falcone is afraid.

Everyone reacts according to their character.

And no matter how many precautions we can take...

...we will never be safe.

Well, go now.

Go to the others.

I'll join you.

(RAIN DOWNSPEAK AND BELLS RINGING)

(JUDGE: "Dear Dad...")

("..you'll wonder why I didn't come to greet you.")

("before I entered the council chamber.")

("I know you'll be upset, but I've been angry for days,"

("indeed, for months.")

("I was angry with you and your trial...")

("..who stole your life...")

("..and destroyed everything around you.")

"I went out in the morning with the escort."

"Every day I was afraid of losing you."

"The terror of turning on the television"

"and feel like you were blown up."

(THEY KNOCK AT THE DOOR)

After you.

- Happy Sunday, Mr. Judge. 00:49:43,679 - It's Sunday. 00:49:46,279 00:49:48,399 00:49:50,079 Everyone seems to be in a good mood.

Maria Nunzia too.

- Did you have anything to tell me? 00:49:56,960 Only that we're ready.

I arrive.

00:50:08,600

"..Gherocunas Dimitrios..."

"..Ianni Giacinto..."

"..acquitted."

And so I made myself the usual chamomile tea.

You did well.

(MIAGOLI)

A cat.

00:50:55,320 MARIA NUNZIA: Where did he come from?

From Ucciardone.

They send it to us.

MARIA NUNZIA: Strange that he got all the way up there.

- It must be a bomb cat. - Ah... idiot.

00:51:13,680 It looks like they called him back. Did you see that? What did I tell you?

- I had a cat. - Oh, yeah? - Hey!

Once he got into the washing machine,

My sister didn't notice, and she started it.

- Really? - True.

Oh, poor thing, what a sad end.

No, never! The entire cycle was done, even the spin cycle.

Then when my sister opened the porthole, she saw something like a missile

that passed over her head, and it was the cat.

- Alive? - Of course! In fact, he had become twice as big.

With the fur all puffed up and shiny.

All soft, because then, you know, in my house there is a lot of abuse

of fabric softener, so...

And sure, you've had a great career, huh!

On the side of the judge on the side.

You have little to make fun of.

In fact, for once, at least, it seems to me that my degree

I need it for something.

You too, sorry.

Why did you drop out of the Naval Academy?

By now I'm sure you were an admiral.

When my father died,

I found my whole family on my shoulders.

I had the opportunity and joined the bank.

Well, you see, I have a similar story too.

- But I have no regrets. - No?

Not even crossings on the Amerigo Vespucci?

You brought a huge pile of books on naval battles.

(TYPEWRITER TICKING)

Are you still working?

Yes.

- Come, come. - Where?

- At my place. - To do what?

Surprise.

Amuní.

- It's not that... - Oh, relax, eh.

But if you had something to tell me, you couldn't tell me...

Judge, don't always ask questions!

Feel that Armagnac.

- Well, well, well... - Well...

Aged 20 years.

- Mh? - Special.

But why are we like this?

Like this?

Different.

Different from whom?

Mh...

Different from everyone.

- Sicilians. - Ah!

(laughing) Sicilians.

So Sicilian that after the war

we wanted to become the 50th star of the American flag.

Nevertheless...

..."Italy without Sicily..."

"..it leaves no image in the spirit."

"The purity of the contours..."

"..the yielding interchangeability of the hues,"

"the harmonious unity of the sky with the sea, of the sky with the earth."

"Whoever has seen them only once..."

But you are a poet.

00:54:52,560 (SPEAKING GERMAN)

"The key to everything is in Sicily."

Goethe in German and also by heart.

Compliments!

Besides...

...we descend from the Gods.

- Uh! You've arrived at the Leopard. 00:55:13,679 When the king wants to make the Prince of Salina a senator,

what does he answer him?

"Me, Senator? But I descend directly from the Gods!"

00:55:22,040 No!

I, descend from a lesser God. I...

...from a puny God.

Now I want to show you something.

Guard...

...and learn. - What are you doing?

00:55:55,760 Look carefully.

The sun salutation.

Allow yourself a little spirituality.

A cat.

00:56:25,000 It's beautiful.

- It looks like a panther. - Excuse me...

...where is this cat?

- I don't see anything. - The cat was there.

- Come on! - It was there.

There it is.

00:56:46,559 That Armagnac of yours gave me a headache.

I hadn't had it for 20 years!

Do you want an aspirin?

I've already taken two.

Of course, I must have made you drink too much.

You started seeing cats, panthers...

00:57:00,840 Yes, yes.

The cat was there and it was a panther.

A panther, no way!

00:57:07,600 A pink panther.

How funny they are.

00:57:20,359 Yes, he took me out to dinner last night.

And then we wanted to go dancing, but then it got late.

- Come on, I'll cut your hair. 00:57:29,359 I can't stand you with that bun!

No, come on, I've always worn them like this.

00:57:35,799 and to my son. 00:57:37,680 You see, they're back too.

00:57:45,280 00:57:47,399 But what did you do?

I didn't do it on purpose. I'll buy it back for you.

But what are you buying again?

It's the only thing I have of my daughter.

Do you have a daughter?

Yes.

Does it seem so strange to you?

Maria Nunzia! Sorry!

No, what are you doing? You're getting cold in your shirt.

Sorry, I'm so sorry!

00:58:56,360 00:59:01,919 00:59:04,280 00:59:06,480 ...plan...

...put into action...

...the extermination of millions of other human beings.

00:59:22,680

00:59:28,360 00:59:34,280 00:59:44,320 00:59:48,159 ...he told us what was happening

a few kilometers from here...

...in a villa near the sea.

In the "death chamber", as...

...they call it.

I felt the same horror.

Vincenzo Sinagra was ordered to find the chosen victims

and hand them over to their executioners.

Those who ordered his work were the bosses of the winning mafia.

The Corleonesi of Totò Riina, by Bernardo Provenzano.

Crazy people...

...who enjoyed killing enemies with total ferocity,

former friends, relatives, acquaintances.

They tied them to a chair.

They tortured them.

And then they strangled them.

With the club...

...with bare hands.

They dissolved them in acid...

...sometimes while they were still alive.

Or they shredded them.

01:01:07,560 01:01:09,560 01:01:13,440

01:01:20,120 I think we can all agree.

01:01:23,880 Are you thinking about it?

The Marquis.

They are here, beyond that wall.

And they were caught, but what about the others?

Those who are free are ghosts

that revolve around us here.

It's a nightmare.

I want to see the sea.

I want...

...to swim.

I want to see Maria's smile.

Of feeling the salt on me.

I want a tennis court.

Seven years?

Should we give Ignazio Salvo only seven years?

01:03:33,959 so, seven years.

01:03:37,959 listening to Buscetta's recordings?

That he was one of their buddies!

I've been a guest in their house who knows how many times.

And what about the Carabinieri reports?

What do the Salvo cousins ​​call the richest men in Sicily!

01:03:50,319 As we know about their yacht.

Gray green to look like a boat

of the Guardia di Finanza, when inside it's a museum!

Gold, porcelain, paintings, and it's always ready to set sail

"because you never know," as we say!

Fleeing is shameful but it saves your life.

And their fabulous hotel? The Zagarella.

A place from a thousand and one nights.

The most important Sicilian politicians spend their holidays there.

01:04:13,799 01:04:15,519 how did they make this money?

And all this support?

First from the old mafia, Bontade and Buscetta,

and now from the alliance with the Corleonesi.

01:04:25,159 for mafia association.

01:04:28,719 between the mafia and politics.

And perhaps it was necessary to go deeper.

They have always been investigated but never convicted.

01:04:38,879 01:04:40,839 And they have taken over all the agencies

of tax collection in Sicily!

01:04:47,080 When for the rest of the country it is at 3%.

To see...

...from his tone...

...it would seem that you want to blame us for who knows what responsibility.

I must remind you, however, that during the trial

It was she who asked me to ask the Salvos

how they had obtained the tax collections.

01:05:09,719

to a normal tender.

And to have won it.

There are no other specific accusations in the investigation.

towards them.

Yet, a magistrate was investigating them.

On how they had actually amassed these riches.

And that magistrate was Rocco Chinnici.

And he was killed.

(HARMONICA SOUND)

01:06:07,679 He was the most important man in my life.

The sweetest, most affectionate.

He taught me honesty.

Freedom too.

He always told me...

..."You must never let anyone think your thoughts."

He was the director of the Palermo tax offices...

Until they came along.

The Salvos.

Everything changed there.

They started asking him to do dirty things,

things he would never have done.

They insisted.

Arrogant.

Masters.

With their elegant air they threatened him...

...always veiled.

But he was increasingly distressed.

More and more agitated.

Until he had a heart attack.

And the second one he died.

I was 28 years old.

Who knows how many other people they will have hurt.

When they summoned me for the trial...

...it was my birthday.

I thought of my father, I thought it was destiny.

Of course... I didn't expect to find the Salvos in the courtroom.

It was a shock.

(ALARM)

But what's going on?

01:08:01,839 (ALARM CONTINUES)

- And this? - Eh, I don't know.

LUIGI: What do we have to do, do we have to go out?

01:08:12,480 01:08:14,759 01:08:18,159 01:08:20,239 The President and I understand what we can do.

01:08:25,399 (ALARM CONTINUES)

Come to me.

01:08:30,759 Leave us like this.

I don't know what to tell you, but I'm worried.

You're scared now too, huh?

It's not a question of being afraid but this is an alarm,

something is happening.

(THEY KNOCK AT THE DOOR)

01:08:44,359 Maybe at this point, it would be a good idea to call.

No, sir.

I'm stopping you.

I'm the one who decides and I tell you no.

If we pick up this phone, the council chamber will completely skip,

It's like opening the door. - I know.

Mr. President, what's going on?

This is an alarm.

But do you understand it or not?

And then they have to call us.

- RENATO: Did they tell you something? - We have to stay calm.

- How calm? - Calm down.

- FRANCESCA: But maybe it's a riot! - MARIA NUNZIA: Or what if they've escaped?

Are they trying to get in?

The alarm is coming from here, from the bunker room!

In short, this is not a correct procedure, Mr. President.

In a state of clear emergency, one must take care

before all the people present,

certainly first of all women, then of all the others,

depending on their needs...

...let us...let me out!

- Calm down. - Luigi!

Calm down, breathe.

(SUDDEN SILENCE)

Ah, the alarm has stopped.

No.

My Jesus.

Praised be Jesus Christ.

He listened to you.

She's back.

Sorry. Sorry, I don't know what happened to me. Sorry.

You must excuse me.

Excuse me.

Excuse me.

(THUNDER)

Let's get started.

01:10:23,080 As we all know, he is the head of the winning mafia, the Corleonesi.

He eliminated all of them one by one.

which could have hindered his rise.

The repentant Giuseppe Di Cristina says...

...that Provenzano and Riina...

...nicknamed "the beasts" for their ferocity, they are to be considered...

...each responsible for no fewer than 40 murders.

Riina decides who should be killed and how.

01:10:54,999 Mrs. Riina even gave birth to four children

in a downtown clinic. The Noto clinic.

He says he lives nearby with his wife and children.

01:11:07,879 01:11:09,919 He has already collected 13 life sentences.

01:11:13,599 01:11:15,639 If we all know everything, why don't they take it?

01:11:20,240 01:11:22,600 01:11:27,560 01:11:31,360

The police themselves found out about it at 4:00 in the morning.

that the raid would start at dawn.

Shall we continue, Mr. President?

- Where are we at? - Still about seventy.

- Many controversial cases? - Huh.

Some big shots.

Sinara, Spadaro, Tinnirello.

Oh God, everyone eventually.

There is still much to do.

A week. Ten days, tops, and we should be able to do it.

- We're practically arriving just before Christmas. - Eh.

We've been locked in here for almost a month.

We can ask the jurors to make an extra effort.

Let's hope.

PRESIDENT: Vincenzo Sinagra.

He came to trial completely recanting

what he had said during the preliminary investigation to Judge Borsellino.

The family...

...had forced him to take it all back.

To pretend to be crazy.

But Sinagra...

...he can't do it.

He feels the need to recall the terrible actions

in which he had participated.

So...

...decides to speak.

He seemed unstoppable.

A river in flood.

It was as if the truth burst forth from an inner movement of the soul.

Vincenzo Sinagra was not a boss.

He wasn't even a man of honor.

Era...

...a simple laborer of death.

He doesn't decide anything.

He's at the bar...

...and wait for the phone call.

When the ring comes he is informed

who must be taken to the death chamber.

He told us he was taking...

...150,000 reads...

...for every soul he accompanied to die.

In the end...

...how much must he have earned?

500,000, 600,000 lire a month?

Excuse me.

01:14:17,360

He was a lonely person.

Without anyone.

Without social relationships.

He only had the survival instinct.

A primitive being.

Rough.

But sincere.

And for this he was rejected by his own family.

Sometimes...

...repentance...

...can make its way even into the simplest souls.

He wrote, he was always writing. Almost as much as you.

But who, your double?

My double, literally. He weighed twice as much as me,

She ate twice as much as me. But she was nice.

For me, having someone behind my back placed there on purpose

to take my place if they killed me,

it just made me feel anxious.

On the other hand, I liked the President's double.

Tour.

Imagine, I even gave him the recipe.

of my chocolate cake.

01:15:26,599 No, because that's not a serious thing.

I'll show you how it's done, I'm a professional.

Look. Go ahead, March.

One, two. One, two. One, two. One, two. About-face.

But this is a march. We're doing a dance.

Women don't march, women dance.

Amunì, come on. Come on. We'll show you.

A little exercise does us good.

Ah... and... onward!

(THEY SING)

(THEY CONTINUE HUMMING)

Reverence...

(THEY CONTINUE HUMMING)

Turnaround...

(THEY CONTINUE HUMMING)

After you.

They're all still out on their lunch break, just hopping around.

Everyone, in short. Except us.

Cheer up, we're almost done.

Oh! This is a subject.

"Spadaro Tommaso, known as Masino."

The prince of the sock, the king of smugglers.

But do you know what he did once?

He was on a motorboat with his men

which was carrying a load of cigarettes.

From afar he sees the Guardia di Finanza patrol boat,

he understands that they would have reached them,

He signals to his men to continue and he... throws himself into the water.

She remembers James Bond when he comes out of the water taking off his wetsuit

and is he wearing a tuxedo underneath?

- Of course. - Well, not him.

He comes out of the water fully dressed, soaking wet.

He crosses the beach, reaches the bar, sits down

and without batting an eyelid, orders a martini.

The captain of the patrol boat who had seen the whole maneuver arrives,

he sits down next to him and does...

..."Spadaro, what are you doing here?"

And he: "I'm having an aperitif, Captain, will you keep me company?"

This Tommaso is a character.

Let's move on, come on, we're going to be late.

Crazy things.

We've come to the end.

To our last defendant.

From Abbate Giovanni...

...to Zito Benedetto.

01:17:49,840 01:17:53,520 ...we still have to review the sentences, balance the penalties.

01:18:19,520 (KNOCKING AT THE DOOR)

(DOOR ALARM)

Here is the operative part of the sentence.

I worked on it all night.

Of course, such a long sentence has never been seen before.

But I won't leave you alone to read it.

We can take turns whenever you want.

And from here... the files of the accused begin from A to Z.

With related convictions, acquittals and financial penalties.

Listen.

I... this sentence...

...I will never read it.

I did not understand.

But can you imagine, reading to each defendant in alphabetical order?

his sentence?

Can you imagine the chaos that breaks out in the courtroom?

01:19:10,479 ...you have to read it at night.

- At night? - Yes, sir.

Without giving time to either the defendants or the lawyers,

let alone to journalists, family members, or the public

to arrive in the classroom.

And then...

...no names.

No names.

The defendants are all numbered, right?

From one to 460. Very good.

We don't read names, we read numbers,

with the charges and sentences.

And let's start with the acquittals.

Do you want to read the sentence without the defendants?

But they will have the right to know their fate!

And the lawyers, who defended them.

Journalists came from all over the world

and you don't want them to be there.

Families. The public.

This process was done specifically in Palermo

for the city to participate and you want to finish it at night

as if we were the ones who should be ashamed!

PRESIDENT: I ​​just want to avoid disturbances!

But do you realize what could happen?

Do you remember what happened when they tried to disqualify me?

The hell that broke loose in the courtroom, all the defendants

screaming inside the cages, banging against the bars.

Think about what could happen now!

The level of violence we could reach.

01:20:20,399 01:20:21,999 how many thousands of years in prison

and you want to throw it in his face, like this!

They might try to interrupt the reading of the sentence

ruining all the work done.

No, thanks! I will never allow that!

01:20:42,120 He didn't understand the point of this process.

This is the first time that the mafia has been said to exist.

That we Sicilians were finally able to condemn

other Sicilians, the mafiosi.

And he doesn't want anyone to hear it.

He wants to read the sentence at night.

He's scared.

01:21:05,559 The President will have his reasons.

No, no, no, no, I don't agree.

But I don't agree either.

I don't agree either.

01:21:16,160 I don't agree either.

I know you all agree that the sentence should be read during the day.

I still think it's wrong but at this point

I have to defer to the majority.

01:21:32,759 No. I actually abstained.

Thanks, Luigi.

So, I will read the document in front of everyone.

I will read the various charges...

...and I will name all the defendants included in it.

So, I will not announce the sentences for each individual defendant,

but depending on the various charges,

the names of all the defendants will follow

which correspond to that charge.

MARIA NUNZIA: What does that mean?

(in a low voice) That what he wanted will happen in part:

Very little will be understood. - President...

...this way everything will have to be rewritten.

Without forgetting the defendants, the crimes, the charges,

It will take at least two more days of work.

We start tomorrow morning at 6:00.

We have to hurry.

We certainly don't want to end up 17.

I'm not superstitious but... it just doesn't seem right to me.

(TYPEWRITER TICKING)

01:22:30,239 01:22:32,840 01:22:37,359 - The names. - "Abbot Luigi, Abbot Francesco,"

"Abbot Michael, Abbenante Michael, Altadonna Francis,"

"Beloved Frederick, Anselm Vincent, Abbot John."

"Article 81."

"Abbot..."

No, sorry, I was just trying to find the rhythm.

But do you really want to read it all like this?

But why do you think I couldn't do it?

30 years of yoga must have served some purpose.

Okay, but now at least make me understand that I have to write.

"Abbot John. Article 81. Abbot Michael."

- "Abbenante Michele." - Go slowly.

"Altadonna Francesco. Beloved Federico."

- Slowly. - "Rodolfo Azzoli. Salvatore Biondo."

"Castillo John Vittorio. Of course Francesco."

01:23:20,320 You have to spell it for me.

"C" come "cognac."

"H" as in "I'm right."

"I" as in "intolerance".

- "A" as in... "A" as in "Amaryllis." - What is Amaryllis?

The Amaryllis is a flower, beautiful, velvety, red, beautiful.

"N" as in "you're never right."

It could just go like this, that we go out and get killed.

As soon as we go out, my daughter pisses me off, that's for sure.

- It's true, your daughter is getting married, but when? - Tomorrow.

Do you realize? I would have made it exactly, exactly.

Sin.

But you know what I say? I don't care anymore.

I succeeded with my other daughter.

I got her married on Sunday, when there were no hearings.

And now what's this other one doing? Can't she wait for me?

Oh well, never mind, it means he's getting married without his mother.

Don't mention it! You'll see he's postponed it.

I mean, it doesn't feel like I'm on vacation.

I'm here passing sentences 10 hours a day, right?

Sorry, what am I carrying...

I believe we are doing something important for everyone.

For her and her children too.

I would like her to understand the importance

and the enormity of this process.

You know, Francesca...

...I believe that our children are afraid too.

My son looked at me with a face in the morning

when I went out with the escort...

...that I can't forget.

I can't do it.

"Perina Giovanni. Expired Giovanni."

"Sinagra Vincenzo, born in 1956."

"Totta Gennaro. Vassallo Andrea and Zerbetta Alessandro..."

- If I can be of any help... 01:24:59,840 You can stay, thank you.

"Vassallo Andrea and Zerbetta Alessandro,"

"granted the generic mitigating circumstances deemed equivalent"

"to the aggravating circumstances contested against Corallo Giovanni, Caracane Salvatore."

"Salvatore."

"Cusimano Giovanni, Di Giacomo Giovanni,"

"Ercolano Salvatore, Vernengo Antonino to a sentence of 16 years"

"of imprisonment and 90..." - Wait a moment.

We forgot about Mutolo Gaspare.

Did we give him 16 years and 90 million too, or am I wrong?

- Maybe you're right. - Do you see?

- Can you find Mutolo's file for me? - You'll find it there.

In that folder on the table.

It would be best to double-check everything we've done so far.

But do you understand or not how complicated it is to do this?

- So, Mutolo? 01:25:54,280 Indeed.

I add Mutolo.

Renato, we need to double-check everything from the beginning.

01:26:05,159 - Let's start again. So... "Mutolo Gaspare." - Done.

"Vernengo Antonino, sentenced to 16 years, 90 million."

01:26:14,519 01:26:17,080 01:26:20,160

- "01-01... 1956." 01:26:39,440 "11-14-1952."

"Sorce Vincenzo, Soresi Giuseppe."

"Soresi Natale, Sparato..." Wait a minute...

Eh, I have a blood sugar drop.

01:26:53,559 Thank you.

01:26:59,159 01:27:02,039 01:27:03,040 Yes, sir.

01:27:15,400

"Provenzano Bernardo."

"Giovanni Battista will pull."

"Riccobono Rosario."

"Riina Salvatore."

"Savior Roll."

"Santapaola Benedetto."

"Senapa Pietro..."

"..and Vermendo Pietro, sentenced to life imprisonment"

"and 200 million in fines each."

1, 2, 3, 4...

...14, 15, 16, 17, 18...

You know I don't feel like going out?

- Pure, you? - Eh...

I don't know, out there I feel naked, defenseless.

Meaning what?

I feel safer in here.

Then, sorry, with all the years of prison we gave.

And what do we do?

Are we staying here forever?

Are we condemning ourselves to life imprisonment too?

01:28:26,319 Well, we have to get back to our lives.

01:28:35,320 Well, maybe the thing that scares me the most is going back to being...

...what I have always been.

And instead, inside here, closed...

...I felt truly... free for the first time.

I'll be waiting for you in Caccamo, with all your women.

Oh, yes, of course.

- I'll bring you all five. 01:29:01,480 (SNORING)

01:29:09,680 - All his ties. - Huh.

Come on, though, it's nice to be back home.

Oh, sure.

- I'm a little sorry I can't see you... - Eh, but we have to see each other.

Oh, sure.

It's not that we don't see each other anymore, in fact, it's better out of here.

But it's not the same thing.

It's true.

- It's different here. - Eh.

- You're right. - We've always been together.

"Adelifo Mario."

"Arcoleo Vincenzo."

"Badalamenti Emanuele Vito."

"Bagarella Calogero."

"Battle..."

How much longer?

01:29:58,600 Why did you want to do it this way?

"Bagarella Calogero."

"Zanca Salvatore,"

"born in Palermo on 30-09-1947."

- We're done. - We're done.

We're done.

I'm going to call the registry office.

And I warn the jurors.

We're done, let's go out!

We made it, let's go out!

We're done, let's go to class.

It rained on the first day in class. Do you remember?

And today that we've finished...

...look here.

Shall we go and read the sentence?

JUDGE: In the name of the Italian people...

...the First Assize Court of Palermo...

...having seen the articles of law...

...declared Giuseppe Casella guilty of the crime...

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