About
As a child, Sicilian Placido Rizzotto saw his father imprisoned for a crime he didn't commit, and as a young man he fought in World War II, first as a soldier and then as an anti-fascist partisan. These events have left Placido with little taste for petty tyranny and with a desire to promote social justice. Upon his return home, he becomes increasingly aware that the Mafia has taken hold of his village, witnessing angry and frustrated as gangsters control local politics and take whatever they want from the people. Placido helps to form a trade union as a challenge to the Mafia's authority, and attempts to organize the villagers into a collective to grow crops in the fields taken by the Mafia.
Cast
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Marcello Mazzarella
Placido Rizzotto
V
Vincenzo Albanese
Luciano Liggio
C
Carmelo Di Mazzarelli
Carmelo Rizzotto
G
Gioia Spaziani
Lia
F
Franco Catalano
Giovanni Pasqua
B
Biagio Barone
Pasquale Criscione
D
David Coco
Pio La Torre
M
Mario Rivera
Pastore
S
Salvatore Gioncardi
Michele Navarra
M
Melino Imparato
Benigno
