Il camorrista

Il camorrista English The Professor is a 1986 Italian drama directed by Giuseppe Tornatore. His film debut, it is based on the true story of the Italian crime boss Raffaele Cutolo, and adapted from the novel by Giuseppe Marrazzo. The International version is shorter than the original Italian release.

In 1980 an earthquake strikes Naples and the Campania region. Fighting over the flood of government reconstruction money, the Camorrista war continues even more brutally than before. In 1981 the Red Brigades kidnap the regional Assessor Mimmo Mesillo Ciro Cirillo in real life. Members of Mesillos political party, the Christian Democrats, turn to the Professor to intervene, fearing that Mesillo will confess party secrets. In exchange the Professor is promised freedom on mental illness grounds, andbillion in ransom. The assessor is freed, but taken into custody by the secret services rather than the police.The politicians do not respect the agreement and the Professor is put in the highsecurity prison of Asinara, by special decree of Italian president Sandro Pertini. This furthers the disintegration of the Professors organization as his trusted men begin cooperating with the police. His sister Rosaria tries to counteract the damage, but to no avail. In the end she kills Ciro, a trusted man who had sold out to politicians, by blowing him up in his car and burying his girlfriend inside a cement pylon. ........

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