Sacco e Vanzetti

Sacco e Vanzetti
Directed by	Giuliano Montaldo
Produced by	Arrigo Colombo Giorgio Papi
Written by	Vicente Aranda Fabrizio Onofri Giuliano Montaldo Mino Roli Ottavio Jemma
Starring	Gian Maria Volonté Riccardo Cucciolla Cyril Cusack Rosanna Fratello Geoffrey Keen Milo O'Shea
Music by	Ennio Morricone
Cinematography	Silvano Ippoliti
Distributed by	Globo Vídeo (Brazil) (video) Sherlock Media S.L. (Spain) (1999) X Films (1971) UMC Pictures (USA)
Release date(s)	1971 (Italian)
Running time	121 min.
Country	Italy
Language	Italian

Sacco e Vanzetti is an Italian docudrama, made in 1971. It was written and directed by Giuliano Montaldo. The film presents a dramatization of the events surrounding the trial of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti

The film's soundtrack was composed and conducted by Ennio Morricone.

The song "Here's to You" introduced in this film (sung by Joan Baez), was also included in Germany in Autumn, Wes Anderson's film The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou and Hideo Kojima's video game Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots (rearranged by Harry Gregson-Williams).

Cast

• Gian Maria Volonté - Bartolomeo Vanzetti
• Riccardo Cucciolla - Nicola Sacco
• Cyril Cusack - Frederick Katzmann
• Rosanna Fratello - Rosa Sacco
• Geoffrey Keen - Judge Webster Thayer
• Milo O'Shea - Fred Moore
• William Prince - William Thompson
• Claude Mann - Journalist
• Edward Jewesbury
• Armenia Balducci - Virginia
• Pier Giovanni Anchisi - Membro Comitato Difesa
• Valentino Orfeo
• Desmond Perry
• John Harvey

Awards

Riccardo Cucciolla won the award for Best Actor at the 1971 Cannes Film Festival.

External links

• Sacco e Vanzetti at the Internet Movie Database
• Sacco e Vanzetti at AllRovi