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Il sasso in bocca
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Title: Il sasso in bocca

Release Date: 22 Oct 1970

Runtime: 1h 25m

Genre: Documentary, Crime

Director: Cine 2000, Pino Film

Production Companies: Cine 2000, Pino Film

Overview: The "stone in the mouth" is the scar that the mafia makes on betrayal's corpse. The modern mafia has the historical and sociological roots into the birth of the american capitalism at the time of Roosevelt. The American "Cosa Nostra" applies the similar methods as the sicilian mafia: same apparatus, same "omertà", same power and same terror. Giuseppe Ferrara, journalist and writer, uses fragments footage, film clips, and current news to make this film.

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Cast

  • Calcedonio Di Pisa: Giuseppe di Bella
  • Michele Navarra: Accursio Di Leo
  • : Franca Sciutto
  • : Bill Vanders
  • : Vito Zappalà
  • (uncredited): Carlo Delle Piane
  • Narrator (voice): Achille Millo
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