Synopsis
SACCO AND VANZETTI is an 80-minute-long documentary that tells the story of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, two Italian immigrant anarchists who were accused of a murder in 1920, and executed in Boston in 1927 after a notoriously prejudiced trial. It is the first major documentary film about this landmark story.
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Cast
- John TurturroVanzetti (Voice)
- Tony ShalhoubSacco (Voice)
- Henry FondaProf. Tommy Turner (archive footage)
Recommandations
- 100
Film Threat
If the state government in Massachusetts refuses to acknowledge its execution of innocent men, then at least this compelling and powerful production can serve as a graceful elegy to the doomed men who were murdered by their adopted homeland. - 100
Entertainment Weekly
It's cleansing to see the facts laid out with intimacy and rigor, and the film earns the comparison it makes to the squelching of due process for some of today's terror suspects. - 100
Film Threat
If the state government in Massachusetts refuses to acknowledge its execution of innocent men, then at least this compelling and powerful production can serve as a graceful elegy to the doomed men who were murdered by their adopted homeland. - 100
Entertainment Weekly
It's cleansing to see the facts laid out with intimacy and rigor, and the film earns the comparison it makes to the squelching of due process for some of today's terror suspects. - 90
Variety
Does a superb job of condensing an overwhelming mass of documentation, archival imagery and artistic representation into a concise yet passionate history lesson whose relevance could not be timelier. - 90
Variety
Does a superb job of condensing an overwhelming mass of documentation, archival imagery and artistic representation into a concise yet passionate history lesson whose relevance could not be timelier. - 75
New York Post
The effect is informative and moving, even if the film has an attack of the gooeys at the end. - 75
New York Post
The effect is informative and moving, even if the film has an attack of the gooeys at the end.