Paolo Benvenuti

While Puccini is totally engrossed with the composition of his opera La fanciulla del West, sexual intrigue swirls around him.

While Puccini is totally engrossed with the composition of his opera La fanciulla del West, sexual intrigue swirls around him.

On the first of May 1947, the bandit Salvatore Giuliano conducted a raid to the mountain pass Portella della Ginestra, with a view to capturing Sicily's most prominent communist, Giacomo Licausi. What actually happened was a regular massacre, leaving fourteen people dead and more than thirty wounded. In 1951, about a year after Giulano's violent death, his men are tried in Viterbo. Unconvinced by the official version, Gaspare Pasciotta's lawyer, decides to travel to Sicily and starts investigating the facts.

The trial of a woman in San Miniato accused of witchcraft in 1594.

The trial of a woman in San Miniato accused of witchcraft in 1594.

An unconventional biopic about the legendary Tuscan bandit Tiburzi, who became a peasants' hero in the late nineteenth century

It was in a suitcase The film was found by the director Paolo Benvenuti in 2007 during the research for his film Puccini e la fanciulla.