Alessandro Marone - Karen Schick
Once Upon a Time in America...
Reconstruction of the historic events of a Cuneese family
who emigrated to the United States in the early 1900s.

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HISTORICAL INDICATIONS

The place where this family comes, the plain of the “saluzzese” and the country of Villafalletto, has one they particular importance one in the within of this vicissitude in how much is original just of this agricultural center Bartolomeo Vanzetti.
Born the 11th june 1888 in the small city of Villafalletto, son of an agriculturist, emigrated in the United States to the age of 20 years. Vanzetti was settled down in the Plymouth, Massachusetts.
Vanzetti, with to its companion Nichola Sacco, was protagonists of whom one can be defined historical vicissitude, symbol of the epic immigration in the USA in the first years of 1900.
Theirs were a dragged judicial case from 1920 to 1927 that it had like protagonists twoANDREA SACCO immigrates Italian (Nichola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti), condemned a.morte the 15 you open them 1920 for the homicide of two men during a holdup in a shoe factory. Their execution provoked protests all over the world. The pure circumstanzial character of the tests adduced against the two Italians (they were anarchical activists) attracted on the short accusations of party-spirit dictated from racial and political reasons.

The demand to reopen the case came systematically refused, also when an other prisoner, death condemned, confessed to have taken part to the holdup. In August 1977 the governor of the Massachusetts Michael Dukakis only recognized in an official document the errors store clerks in the process, riabilitando completely the memory of Sacco and Vanzetti. This episode becomed the symbol of the social and human conditions of Italian immigrates but not only of this historical period.

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