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The Palermo Connection

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The Palermo Connection
Directed byFrancesco Rosi
Written byFrancesco Rosi
Gore Vidal
Tonino Guerra
Based onOublier Palerme
by Edmonde Charle-Roux
Produced byMario Cecchi Gori
Vittorio Cecchi Gori
StarringJim Belushi
Mimi Rogers
Joss Ackland
Vittorio Gassman
Philippe Noiret
CinematographyPasqualino De Santis
Edited byRuggero Mastroianni
Music byEnnio Morricone
Production
companies
Cecchi Gori Group
Reteitalia
Gaumont
Distributed byPenta Film (Italy)
Gaumont (France)
Release date
  • 1990 (1990)
Running time
100 minutes
CountriesItaly
France
LanguagesEnglish
Italian
Box office$197,000 (Italy)[1]

Dimenticare Palermo (Forgetting Palermo) is a 1990 Italian political thriller film starring Jim Belushi, directed by Francesco Rosi and co-written by Gore Vidal.[2] The film was released under the title The Palermo Connection in North America. The script is based on the Prix Goncourt winning novel Oublier Palerme (1966) by French author Edmonde Charles-Roux.

Plot

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Carmine Bonavia is candidate for mayor of New York City on the issue of drug legalization. During the campaign he gets married and travels to his ancestral home of Sicily, for the honeymoon. In the hotel in Palermo he meets a Sicilian prince who has been confined there for years because he crossed the mafia. He discovers the beauties of the Italian island but is also framed by men of power, for a crime he did not commit. He discovers that those men will stop at nothing to prevent the legalization of drugs, which threatens their business, and is forced to decide between joining them or going to prison.

Cast

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References

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  1. ^ Bisogni, Daniela (3 September 1990). "Italo b.o. piccolo". Variety. p. 51.
  2. ^ BAM/PFA
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