The story is set in the small village of Cinisi, close to the Palermo-Punta Raisi airport, an important centre for drug trafficking. The house of Tano Badalamenti, a well-known mafia boss, is just one hundred steps away from the house of young Peppino Impastato, killed on the 9th of May 1978, at the same time when the statesman Aldo Moro’s corpse was found in
Rome, murdered by the Brigate Rosse. This is the true story of a boy from the South of Italy who daringly struggles against the complex set of “honour” relationships, which are corrupt and sick, in the Sicily of the time. Peppino’s struggle - in the squares, on the cyclostyled newspapers, over the microphones of a free radio - is first of all an act of rebellion against his father’s resignation, in the name of the beauty of those places, jeopardized by property speculation. Therefore, in spite of those who invite him to “think it twice”, the main character will never make those “hundred steps” separating him from Badalamenti’s world, except to shout all his anger under his windows, which will cost him his life. In the soundtrack, Volare by Domenico Modugno. Best Script Award at the Venice Film Festival and Golden Grolla to Lo Cascio and Burruano. Giordana says: “This film is not on the mafia, but on energy, on the will to build, on the imagination of a group of young men who had the courage to challenge the world under the illusion that they could change it”.

Marco Tullio Giordana

Born in Milan in 1950, Giordana begins his career in 1977, collaborating in the collective editing film Forza Italia!, that, under the coordination of Roberto Faenza, critically showed thirty years of Italian history. In 1980 he directs his first film, Maledetti vi amerò, a mildly ironic reflection on the generation of 1968 and on the failure of that utopia, Golden Leopard
at the Locarno Film Festival. The following year, he presents La caduta degli angeli ribelli in Venice, a melodramatic film on a terrorist on the run and a young upper-class lady. In 1983 he directs Notti e nebbie for the Italian RAI TV, based on the homonymous novel by Carlo Castellaneta. In 1988 he is back in Venice with Appuntamento a Liverpool inspired by
the tragedy at the Heysel stadium in Brussels. In 1995 Giordana pays a tribute to a master of cinema, and not only, Pasolini, with a reconstruction of the investigation entitled Pasolini, Un delitto italiano. He reaches the apex of his career with I cento passi. Giordana is also a writer (Vita segreta del signore delle macchine, 1990) and a lyric director.