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.
Directed by Pasquale Scimeca
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Cast

Marcello Mazzarella
Placido Rizzotto

Vincenzo Albanese
Luciano Liggio

Carmelo Di Mazzarelli
Carmelo Rizzotto

Gioia Spaziani
Lia
Franco Catalano
Giovanni Pasqua

Biagio Barone
Pasquale Criscione
Arturo Todaro
Carlo Alberto Dalla Chiesa
David Coco
Pio La Torre
Antonello Collesano
Tom
Matteo Barbera
Bino
Caterina Di Francesca
Madre di Placido
Liliana Abbene
Madre di Lia
Giuseppe Gennusa
Saro

Mario Rivera
Pastore
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