The theaters - 2 July 2020, distributed by Cine1 Italia, Il Delitto Mattarella directed by Aurelio Grimaldi , co-produced by Cine 1 Italia and Arancia Cinema and as an external investor by Edilizia Acrobatica SpA, with the support of of the Sicily Film Commission and Contemporary Senses. The film has a rich Sicilian cast, composed of Antonio Alverario, Claudio Castrogiovanni, Nicasio Catanese, David Coco, Vincenzo Crivello, Francesco Di Leva, Donatella Finocchiaro, Lollo Franco, Sergio Friscia, Ivan Giambirtone, Leo Gullotta, Guia Jelo, Francesco La Mantia, Vittorio Magazzù, Tuccio Musumeci, Tony Sperandeo, Andrea Tidona .
A real tribute to the memory of Piersanti Mattarella by the Sicilian actors involved in the project which in turn makes use of an entirely Sicilian troupe. Aurelio Grimaldi has been collecting materials for the Mattarella case for years. After the election of his brother Sergio at the Quirinale he wrote a script full of facts and documents, with the aim of fighting the oblivion in which the story fell. Among the characters the first two offices of the State, Sergio Mattarella and the then President of the Senate Pietro Grasso, who on 6 January 1980 was a young PM on duty and therefore owner of the beginning of investigations into the murder.
“Piersanti Mattarella - underlines Grimaldi - is an unjustly forgotten figure. In Rome and Milan there is not even a street dedicated to him. The discretion of the impeccable family and brother President of the Republic are unparalleled ".
SYNOPSIS
January 6, 1980. The President of the Sicilian Region Piersanti Mattarella is going to Mass with his family. A young man approaches the car window and shoots Piersanti in cold blood and kills him. Despite the disorientation of the moment with a series of misdirections towards left-wing terrorism, the crime appeared anomalous in its modalities. The young Deputy Prosecutor on duty, that day of the Epiphany, will be Pietro Grasso, future Anti-Mafia Prosecutor and President of the Senate. The investigations will be continued by the Instructor Judge Giovanni Falcone, who will uncover dangerous relationships between the Mafia, Politics, Nar and neo-fascists, the Magliana gang, Gladio and Secret Services. The film reconstructs the political climate that preceded the murder: protected in Rome by the Secretary of the DC and the President of the Republic Pertini, Mattarella is totally opposed by the Sicilian capicorrente of his party. Mattarella did not only disturb the balance in place in the DC but entered the business and the agreements between politics and the mafia, which, for the Mattarella murder, allies with the neo-fascist Roman extreme right in exchange for escaping from prison Big bird of the leader Concutelli. But the Mattarella murder is also the story of a family, of human beings, of values and ideals pursued with a sincere spirit of service and solidarity: aspects that play a central role in the film. Aurelio Grimaldi retraces those tragic days with a careful and sensitive eye.
