Sacco e Vanzetti is an Italian

Italy

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 docudrama

Docudrama

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, made in 1971. It was written and directed by Giuliano Montaldo

Giuliano Montaldo

Giuliano Montaldo is an Italian film director.While he was still a young student, Montaldo was recruited by the director Carlo Lizzani for the role of leading actor in the film Achtung! Banditi!...

. The film presents a dramatization of the events surrounding the trial of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti

Sacco and Vanzetti

Ferdinando Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were anarchists who were convicted of murdering two men during a 1920 armed robbery in South Braintree, Massachusetts, United States...

The film's soundtrack was composed and conducted by Ennio Morricone

Ennio Morricone

Ennio Morricone, Grand Officer OMRI, , is an Italian composer and conductor, who wrote music to more than 500 motion pictures and television series, in a career lasting over 50 years. His scores have been included in over 20 award-winning films as well as several symphonic and choral pieces...

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The song "Here's to You" introduced in this film (sung by Joan Baez

Joan Baez

Joan Chandos Baez is an American folk singer, songwriter, musician and a prominent activist in the fields of human rights, peace and environmental justice....

), was also included in Germany in Autumn

Germany in Autumn

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, Wes Anderson's

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 film The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou

The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou

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and Hideo Kojima's

Hideo Kojima

is a Japanese game director originally employed at Konami. He is currently the director of Kojima Productions and was promoted to Vice President of Konami Digital Entertainment in early 2011...

 video game Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots

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(rearranged by Harry Gregson-Williams

Harry Gregson-Williams

Harry Gregson-Williams is a prolific British composer, orchestrator, conductor, and music producer. He is best known for his film scores, of which he has composed over sixty using electronic music and orchestral pieces...

).

Cast

• Gian Maria Volonté
  Gian Maria Volontè
  Gian Maria Volonté was an Italian actor. He is perhaps most famous outside of Italy for his roles as the main villain in Sergio Leone's A Fistful of Dollars and For a Few Dollars More.-Early life:Volonté was born in Milan, and graduated in Rome in 1957...
  
   - Bartolomeo Vanzetti
• Riccardo Cucciolla
  Riccardo Cucciolla
  Riccardo Cucciolla was an Italian film actor. He appeared in 60 films between 1953 and 1999. He won the Best Actor Award at the 1971 Cannes Film Festival for the film Sacco e Vanzetti....
  
   - Nicola Sacco
• Cyril Cusack
  Cyril Cusack
  Cyril James Cusack was an Irish actor, who appeared in more than 90 films.-Early life:Cusack was born in Durban, Natal, South Africa, the son of Alice Violet , an actress, and James Walter Cusack, a sergeant in the Natal mounted police. His parents separated when he was young and his mother took...
  
   - Frederick Katzmann
• Rosanna Fratello - Rosa Sacco
• Geoffrey Keen
  Geoffrey Keen
  Geoffrey Keen was an English actor who appeared in supporting roles in many famous films.-Early life:Keen was born in Wallingford, Oxfordshire, England, the son of stage actor Malcolm Keen. He was educated at Bristol Grammar School. He then joined the Little Repertory Theatre in Bristol for whom...
  
   - Judge Webster Thayer
• Milo O'Shea
  Milo O'Shea
  -Early life:He was born and raised in Dublin and educated by the Christian Brothers at Synge Street, along with his friend Donal Donnelly.He was discovered in the 1950s by Harry Dillon, who ran the "37 Theatre Club" on the top floor of his shop The Swiss Gem Company, 51 Lower O'Connell Street...
  
   - Fred Moore
• William Prince
  William Prince (actor)
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   - William Thompson
• Claude Mann - Journalist
• Edward Jewesbury
  Edward Jewesbury
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• Armenia Balducci - Virginia
• Pier Giovanni Anchisi - Membro Comitato Difesa
• Valentino Orfeo
• Desmond Perry
• John Harvey
  John Harvey (actor)
  John Harvey was an English actor. He appeared in 52 films, two television films and made 70 television guest appearances between 1948 and 1979....
  
  

Awards

Riccardo Cucciolla

Riccardo Cucciolla

Riccardo Cucciolla was an Italian film actor. He appeared in 60 films between 1953 and 1999. He won the Best Actor Award at the 1971 Cannes Film Festival for the film Sacco e Vanzetti....

 won the award for Best Actor

Best Actor Award (Cannes Film Festival)

The Best Actor Award is an award presented at the Cannes Film Festival. It is chosen by the jury from the 'official section' of movies at the festival. It was first awarded in 1946.- Award Winners :-External links:* * ....

 at the 1971 Cannes Film Festival

1971 Cannes Film Festival

- Jury :*Michèle Morgan *Pierre Billard *Michael Birkett *Anselmo Duarte *István Gaál *Sergio Leone *Aleksandar Petrović *Maurice Rheims *Erich Segal...

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