SACCO AND VANZETTI FOR BREAKFAST CINEMA

It continues successfully public (139 viewers attended the screening of the film Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown on February 25) of Cinema for Breakfast Season 2, curated by the Centro Studi Commedia all’italiana, 50&Piu University of Livorno, FiPiLi Horror Festival, Circolo KInoglaz and Erasmo Libri, with the participation of the Municipality of Livorno.

On Sunday, March 10, at the Artistic Center Il Grattacielo in via del Platano, the film “Sacco and Vanzetti” by Giuliano Montaldo (Italy-France 1971 – 2h00m) will be screened. Elena Franchini introduces the film. The appointment, as usual, is at 9.15 am for breakfast, while the screening of the film will start at 10.30 am. Entrance ticket: 8 euros, breakfast included.

Directed by Giuliano Montaldo, starring Gian Maria Volonté and Riccardo Cucciolla, the film tells the unfair death sentence verdict against the two Italian anarchists Ferdinando Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, accused of armed robbery and murder, which stirs emotion and anger worldwide. Sacco worked as a laborer in a shoe factory, while Vanzetti, also known as Trômlin, after travelling extensively in the United States doing various jobs, bought a cart from an Italian for selling fish and did this job for a few months. The outrage over the conviction becomes even greater when, for seven long years, all requests for a new trial and review of the judgment made by the defenders of the two defendants are preordainedly rejected. The final execution will not remove the heavy suspicion that Sacco and Vanzetti were judged more for the alleged danger of their political ideas than for the charges brought against them. The film was awarded at the Cannes Film Festival and won 3 Silver Ribbons.

Giuliano Montaldo (born on February 22, 1930 in Genoa; died on September 6, 2023 at the age of 93 in Rome) was a director, actor, writer, screenwriter, and co-screenwriter. In 2018, he received the award for best supporting actor at the David di Donatello for the film Everything You Want. From 2007 to 2018, Giuliano Montaldo won three awards: two David di Donatello in 2007 and 2018, and a Silver Ribbon in 2017.

Elena Franchini, born in Pisa, holds a degree in Literature. She works at the library of History of Arts of the University of Pisa, which has a rich collection of books and magazines on the history of cinema. She is part of the board of directors of the Franco Serantini Library – Institute of social history, Resistance and contemporary age in the province of Pisa.