Enzo, domani a Palermo!

Sep 1, 1999

1h 8m

★ 6.8

Overview

Ciprì and Maresco's delicious documentary portrays Sicilian super-agent Enzo Castagna, a man with some 20,000 extras on his books, who has worked with the likes of Loren, Pasolini, Rosi, Coppola and Cimino (indeed, virtually anyone who's ever chosen to film in Palermo). It's typically weird, witty and wonderful, partly due to its subject, a self-styled 'little big man' who consents to be described as 'almighty' and 'the greatest contributor to Italian cinema in the last 35 years'. The local favourite has also done time for bribery, but refuses to comment on Cosa Nostra. The film is as astonishing as its subject. Shot in luscious b/w, it's driven forward by an offscreen interrogator who alternates between ludicrously hyperbolic flattery and forthright questions about corruption and crime. It also serves as a study of the way ethics get abandoned in the unending pursuit of fame, wealth and self-esteem.

Genres

Documentary

Production Companies

Tea Nova

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Cast

Self

Umberto Castagna

Self (archive footage) (as Totò Cascio)

Salvatore Cascio

Self

Saverio D'Amico

Self

Tony Sperandeo

Self

Salvatore Termini

Self (voice) (uncredited)

Franco Maresco

Self

Angelo Prollo

Self

Benedetto Raneli

Self

Pippo Agusta

Self

Maurizio Prollo

Self

Aurelio Grimaldi

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