| Cento giorni a Palermo (Cent jours à Palerme) |
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| Directed by | Giuseppe Ferrara Giuseppe Tornatore |
| Written by | Giuseppe Tornatore (screenplay) |
| Starring | Lino Ventura Giuliana De Sio Lino Troisi Stefano Satta Flores Arnoldo Foà Adalberto Maria Merli |
| Release date(s) | 1984 |
| Running time | 107 minutes |
| Language | Italian, French |
Cento giorni a Palermo (English: One hundred days in Palermo) is a 1984 non-fiction film directed by Giuseppe Ferrara with Giuseppe Tornatore as screenplay writer. The film is a France/Italy coproduction and tells about the last hundred days in the life of the Italian "Generale dei Carabinieri" and anti-mafia highest authority Carlo Alberto Dalla Chiesa as prefect of Palermo, the capital of the Italian island of Sicily. Dalla Chiesa's life ended with his barbaric murder, shot by the machine guns of a mafia squad (along his wife and his bodyguard) on September 3, 1982.