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THE LEGAL DEATH: Giuliano Montaldo talks about the film Sacco and Vanzetti

Boston, 1927. Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, were executed by electric chair, the only crime they were found guilty was to be anarchists.
Fifty years later, Giuliano Montaldo made a film about their incredible story. The title is Sacco e Vanzetti and immediately becomes a worldwide emblem against injustice.

  • SIlvia
    Director
    Giulietti
  • Giotto
    Director
    Barbieri
  • Silvia
    Writer
    Giulietti
  • Giotto
    Writer
    Barbieri
  • SIlvia
    Producer
    Giulietti
  • Giuliano Montaldo
    Key Cast
  • Ennio Morricone
    Key Cast
  • Mario Sesti
    Key Cast
  • Vera Pescarolo Montaldo
    Key Cast
  • Lorenzo Tibaldo
    Key Cast
  • Luigi Botta
    Key Cast
  • Rosanna Fratello
    Key Cast
  • Project Title (Original Language):
    LA MORTE LEGALE: Giuliano Montaldo racconta il film Sacco e Vanzetti
  • Project Type:
    Documentary
  • Genres:
    Drama, Storic, biografic
  • Runtime:
    53 minutes
  • Completion Date:
    October 10, 2018
  • Production Budget:
    120,000 EUR
  • Country of Origin:
    Italy
  • Country of Filming:
    Italy
  • Language:
    Italian
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital HD
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Digital Cinema Package:
    Unavailable
  • Bellaria Film Festival
    Bellaria
    Italy
    December 28, 2018
    Italian
    Special Mention Award
Distribution Information
  • Distribuzione Indipendente srl
    Country: Italy
    Rights: All Rights
Director Biography - SIlvia, Giotto

Silvia Giulietti
Silvia was one of the first women to occupy the roles of camera assistant, camera operator and director of photography in the Italian film industry. Silvia spent her adolescence on the sets and stages of Cinecitta in the early eighties heyday of the studio, volunteering for Renzo Rossellini’s Gaumont Italia on the production movies. She learned her trade from a master cinematographer of Italian neo-realism, Armando Nannuzzi, director of photography for Visconti, Pasolini, De Sica, Leone and Cavani. She was an innovator in the use HD technology and more recently has directed and produced award winning documentaries.
Her skills and techniques, learnt through many years of collaborations with some of the greatests directors, range from classic traditional techniques of lighting and photographic effects, to all the new technologies, in an innovative, fresh and expressive way, making her contribution to all projects very successful and unique. She is passionate about her work, always striving to deliver just the right atmosphere and style of the films imagery.
Since 2004 she produces and directs documentaries, commercial, and develops international movie projects with her own independent production iFrame srl

Giotto Barbieri was born in Milano, 12 June 1971.After being employed by the publisher Sperling & Kupfer, he attended the conservatoire of Audio-visual sciences in Lugan (Swiss), specialising in directing.He has cooperated for 5 years as production manager, with several advertising producers (Filmgo, Filmaster, BRW, Quicksilver Productions).Moved to Genoa in 2001 he's alternated his activity as Theater director cooperating with Teatro dell’Archivolto and scriptwriter writing several film scripts. In 2001 his short film “La Colpa” was selected for the Italian Golden Globe Award. In 2004 he directs “Ma de Ma” one hour documentary on the last transatlantic ships for Arte and RAI3, then “Ring” a story of box for Fox Italy. In 2008 he directs “0.9 Ampere” on the history of electroshock, for Histroy Channel Italy, while in 2009 he directed two episodes from the series “Nobody is perfect” for Fox Italy.In 2006 funded his production house called Filmcome14 and with this company produced several documentaries.

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Director Statement

DIRECTOR’s NOTE

The Legal Death celebrates the work of the great director Giuliano Montaldo who had the courage to realize a film about the story of Sacco and Vanzetti during the seventies, a time full of social upheavals.
A time where the story of two italian anarchists sent to death although they were complete innocents, was disappeared from collective memory.
Montaldo shed light on this important story of tragedy, injustice and martyrdom, and he put it on the screen because he was trustful that it could arouse a generation who was back then starting to fight for civil rights and freedom. The opening in 1971 was a huge international success. The movie theaters were stormed of young people who saw the Sacco and Vanzetti’s sacrifice as an emblem of important beliefs and ideals. The artwork was translated and released all over the world. The soundtrack composed by Ennio Morricone and Joan Baez became an anthem sang by the voice of millions of people from all the squares all over the world. The names of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti came frome the past to testify their sacrifice for an higher level of thought.
Silvia Giulietti and Giotto Barbieri wanted to unveil what was there, behind the scenes of a film which is now a milestone in the “so called”cinema socially active.
In the documentary Montaldo tells about the genesis of the movie and also when he came up with the idea, how he found the right producer, why he chose those particular actors, his artistic approach. The creation of a masterpiece,and then the difficulties apparently intractables he had to deal with. All that allowed, even moments of real luck to get the the film in the theaters at last.
The Legal Death is a wonderful journey throughout the cinema and like every journey, you know when it starts but you’re not sure to come to an end. This is the magic of cinema…