The Places of the cinematographic story: To each his own (Palermo)
Places included in the IWB register of the Sicily Region (Places of the literary, television and filmic story) - Subcategory "Places of the mafia in the cinematographic transpositions of the literary text" - Valenza LIM: "To each his own", 1967 (from "To each the his ”by Leonardo Sciascia), directed by Elio Petri
- "To each his own", 1967, (from "To each his own" by Leonardo Sciascia) directed by Elio Petri:
- Piazza del Duomo, Cirincione Pharmacy in Corso Ruggero, courtyard of the monastery of Santa Caterina (Cefalù prov. Palermo);
- the countryside between Finale di Pollina and the Rocca di Cefalù (prov. Palermo);
- Palermo
Form:
To each his own is a 1967 film directed by Elio Petri, loosely based on the novel of the same name by Leonardo Sciascia.
In a country of the Sicilia (Cefalù in province of Palermo), during a hunting trip two men are killed, the pharmacist Manno and doctor Roscio. Since the former had received several threatening letters, due to his alleged extramarital affairs, it is concluded that he was the target of the murder, while the latter was only a witness, an innocent victim. The investigations follow the lead of the honor killing and lead to the arrest of Rosina's father and brothers, a teenage servant seduced by Manno.
Paolo Laurana, high school teacher who works in Palermo, little inserted in the life of the country, with a past of militancy Communist, considered antisocial but harmless by the police, is convinced that the story is not as simple as it appears, because he had been able to see one of the threatening letters before the murders and had noticed that the newspaper letters with which it was composed came from a copy ofRoman Observer, an unlikely reading for the accused, illiterate pastors. He shares his suspicions with Luisa, the widow of Doctor Roscio, perhaps the real target of the murderer, and her cousin, the lawyer Rosello, an important local notable. While the former helps Laurana in her personal investigation, Rosello agrees to take charge of the defense of the innocent under arrest.
Laurana meets the only local recipients of the Vatican newspaper: the curate of Sant'Amo, a religious with little vocation, rather voted to save artistic objects from small rural churches in favor of wealthy private collectors, who helps him understand that under the placid appearances of the life of the country hide dangerous intrigues; and the archpriest, uncle of Luisa and Rosello, who raised them as children.
He continues his investigations in Palermo, where his old friendship with a Communist deputy allows him to discover that Roscio had gone to Roma to report the illegal activities of someone whose name he hadn't had time to reveal. With the father of Roscio, a luminary of medicine reduced to blindness, he finds the diary in which the murdered person took note of a series of accusations against the lawyer Rosello. When he then sees the latter in the company of Raganà, a notorious criminal, he is definitively convinced that the instigator of the murder is the one who had managed to brilliantly deflect any suspicion with the generous defense of the alleged killers.
Laurana decides to reveal to Luisa the contents of the diary, deposited as a precaution in a safety deposit box, but also expressing her concerns about her close relationship with her cousin. She admits that when they were young they had been romantically linked, but the uncle archpriest had prevented them from getting married and had forced her into a marriage with a man she had never loved. Despite this, Luisa seems willing to support him in the accusations against Rosello, and Laurana is quite ready to believe the woman he is infatuated with.
But this attraction is fatal to him: after escaping Rosello's first attempt to get rid of him permanently, he makes the mistake of telling Luisa that he was saved only thanks to a bluff, boasting the existence of a diary of his investigations that does not actually exist. The woman betrays him by abandoning him to his fate in a lonely place, where he is joined by the hitmen who kill him with explosives.
Some time later, the sumptuous marriage of cousins Rosello and Luisa is celebrated. Among those present at the celebration, there are those who have understood everything about the events and bitterly comment on the stupidity of Laurana, the victim of a more complicated intrigue than the inexperienced professor could have imagined. (Source: Wikipedia)
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