Interesteg What makes it different from others?

ThedevilChoose When a movie has you begging for it to end not even half way through it's pure crap. We've all seen this movie and this characters millions of times, nothing new in it. Don't waste your time.

Bluebell Alcock Ok... Let's be honest. It cannot be the best movie but is quite enjoyable. The movie has the potential to develop a great plot for future movies

Payno I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

ShelbyTMItchell This case still affects not just in the so-called Roaring Twenties but also of today and of our future. As we see that Nicola Sacco and Bartholomeo Vanzetti, two Italian born men and devout anarchists were executed due to their anarchists beliefs.Murder was gruesome in Brantree, MA but it was their beliefs and the Red Scare that really not just divided a nation but divided a whole entire world.Case that still haunts us in the twenties, haunts us today and for the future. As the tag line says "If it happened once, it could happen again!" The late, great Riccardo Cucciolla and late great, Gian Marie Volente in the respected Sacco and Vanzetti roles. Were made as scapegoats as they could not get a fair trial as the criminal justice system also looked at them being Italians, which were in the minority at the time.Sacco was the quiet family man shoemaker and Vanzetti was more of the spokesman, fish peddler of the two and more of the talker. And maybe would had been a college professor if he had a college degree had it probably not been for his beliefs or being Italian. That they are portrayed to be. As the case also takes a toll on their families along the way.Cyri Cusack as a bullying prosecutor steals the movie. As he wants to just get them to the electric chair asap it seems over their beliefs. Despite the worldwide protests over them, Cusack's character finally gets his wish.A case that should be studied all over the world!

pierre-veck My comment could not possibly add anything to the ones already available. I just want to say that the latest scandal in this story is that the film has not been made available on DVD ! Is there a conspiracy still going on to prevent such films from being watched by new generations ? I am exasperated to see that thousands of trash films are published on DVD every month while such masterpieces are still ignored. Sacco e Vanzetti reaches far beyond the subject of the two anarchists ignominiously put to death in a misconducted trial. The ghosts of the two men are still behind every prejudiced account by the media, every lie by politicians all over the world. It calls for better institutions, better democracy all over the world. The fact that so many film buffs bothered to express their admiration for this outstanding movie should entice a publisher to make this film at last available. I have kept checking for years, but nothing so far.

Cristi_Ciopron Sacco e Vanzetti (1971)has the finest music a political propaganda flick can have or afford:a song of Joan Baez,always ready for some leftist propaganda,and Ennio Morricone's score.The narration is strong, logic and energetic.Two Italian anarchists,living in the USA,in '20 (why,since they might live in the Soviet Union,the proletarians' motherland,where almost all was fine and the justice was made and the trials were as fair as possible …),are unjustly accused of a murder they have not committed.But the trial is in fact political,and not penal.The film celebrates the two anarchists as heroes of the proletariat and it has a purely political and historical content.It is a keen criticism of racism and of political trials.When,in other countries,in fierce leftist regimes,people like Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti became prosecutors,they did not want to know about justice,correct trials,and mercy.And when Gian Maria Volontè tells the governor about violence and the various forms of violence,the crap philosophy reaches a pinnacle with Gian Maria Volontè's remark that knowing the fact that one will die is also a violence (like this could justify anarchism).Sacco e Vanzetti (1971) is surely a good movie,and as a matter fact one of the few well made films of political propaganda. Through this quite interesting chapter of social and political history,the director Giuliano Montaldo has a political message to convey.So,a very good and interesting movie,but with an unusual bad performance from Gian Maria Volontè:his role is very strident and of an rhetorical triteness,a piece of ridiculous declamation.I was looking forward to see this Italian movie since '88,when I saw an image of the two main actors in a magazine. The political lesson of Sacco e Vanzetti (1971) is very flawed and unrighteous.While the two anarchists were asking justice in a political system they were doing everything to undermine,in countries led by similar leftist chiefs many millions were begging in vain for justice. Giuliano Montaldo tries to transform Bartolomeo Vanzetti into a political prophet,and into a strategist;which the man was not.In the '20s,two Italian anarchists with no education and political thought whatsoever could think that by promoting anarchism the social classes will be abolished and the humanity will leave in peace and prosperity,each working honestly,etc.;this was their political and cultural level.This kind of utopianism and irresponsibility has brought much harm.In '20,when the two anarchists were blaming the capitalism for being inhuman and unjust,horrible things were already happening in communist regimes.But I think this did not interest our goodhearted Utopists.Anyway,if leftist anarchists were irresponsible in '20,and had no idea about political things,even more shameless was Giuliano Montaldo's attitude in 1971,after all the Leninist and communist and leftist Carnages in Europe and in the rest of the world were well known.The brutal capitalism of the '20s system,as depicted in this film,and the thoughtless anarchism that has no idea about how to govern and instead proposes stupid and fantastical utopias about the society without classes,are not the only two alternatives.And since the movie seems to propose seriously the anarchism as a human and political attitude,it must be answered also seriously.Giuliano Montaldo,now 77 years old,is the author of Nudi per Vivere (1964);Ad Ogni Costo (1967):with Janet Leigh,Edward G. Robinson and Klaus Kinski;Machine Gun McCain;Dio è con Noi (1969):with Richard Johnson,Franco Nero;Giordano Bruno (1973) with Gian Maria Volontè and Charlotte Rampling;The Gold Rimmed Glasses ;Time to Kill :with Nicolas Cage;and Mind Control:with Ben Gazzara,Ingrid Thulin,Andréa Ferréol ....The cast of Sacco e Vanzetti (1971)includes Cyril Cusack,Riccardo Cucciolla.

Claudio Carvalho In 1920, the anarchist Italian immigrants Niccola Sacco (Riccardo Cucciolla) and Bartolomeo Vanzetti (Gian Maria Volonté) are sentenced to death, falsely accused of a robbery and murder. Indeed they are condemned due to their political beliefs, in one of the most shameful and hypocrite judgments of the human history. In 1971, the exhibition of "Sacco and Vanzetti" was forbidden in Brazil, and the first time I could watch it was when Brazil was leaving the military dictatorship regime in a movie theater specialized in art movies. I was very impressed with the story of one of the greatest injustice of a judiciary system, mostly because it happened in the "land of freedom". Gian Maria Volonté, as usual, and Riccardo Cucciolla offer one of the most touching and beautiful dramatic interpretations I have ever seen. This movie was recently released by the best (not in quantity of titles but in their quality) Brazilian distributors called Versatil. The DVD is completely restored, in widescreen and full of Extras, showing footages of this infamous trial. The musical score of Joan Baez and Ennio Morricone is another attraction. I expected to see this outstanding movie among the IMDb Top 250, but it seems that its worldwide distribution does not work well, and there are only 185 votes in 2005. My vote is ten.Title (Brazil): "Sacco & Vanzetti"