Gian Maria Volontè was one of the greatest Italian actors of all times. The will of watching some of his unforgettable performances led me to buy and watch "Sacco e Vanzetti". This movie is about a fundamental chapter of contemporary history.
Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were two Italian-born US immigrants and anarchists who were unjustly convicted and executed via electrocution in August 1927 in Massachusetts for the 1920 armed robbery and murder of a pay-clerk and a security guard in Braintree, Massachusetts.
The trial gave origin to worldwide controversy, as Sacco and Vanzetti were also being judged and convicted for what they represented, a political enemy and a menace to social order, and for what they were, immigrants.
Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were two Italian-born US immigrants and anarchists who were unjustly convicted and executed via electrocution in August 1927 in Massachusetts for the 1920 armed robbery and murder of a pay-clerk and a security guard in Braintree, Massachusetts.
The trial gave origin to worldwide controversy, as Sacco and Vanzetti were also being judged and convicted for what they represented, a political enemy and a menace to social order, and for what they were, immigrants.
Their story should be known more, because we still have so much to learn from it, especially in countries were immigration is an issue, like in present-day Italy. To do so, I strongly invite you to watch this movie, directed by Giuliano Montaldo in 1971, with music by Ennio Morricone and Joan Baez.
In August 1977, Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis signed a proclamation declaring, "Any stigma and disgrace should be forever removed from the names of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti. We are not here to say whether these men are guilty or innocent. We are here to say that the high standards of justice, which we in Massachusetts take such pride in, failed Sacco and Vanzetti."
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