Placido Rizzotto
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Placido Rizzotto (Italian pronunciation: [ˈplaːtʃido ritˈtsɔtto]; 2 January 1914 – 10 March 1948) was an Italian partisan, socialist peasant and trade union leader from Corleone, who was kidnapped and murdered by Sicilian Mafia boss Luciano Leggio on 10 March 1948.
Placido Rizzotto è stato un sindacalista e politico italiano, afferente al massimalismo socialista, rapito e ucciso da Cosa nostra.
Oct 20, 2000 · Placido Rizzotto: Directed by Pasquale Scimeca. With Marcello Mazzarella, Vincenzo Albanese, Carmelo Di Mazzarelli, Gioia Spaziani. The real story of Placido Rizzotto, a trade union leader murdered by the mafia in Sicily in 1948.
May 24, 2012 · More than 60 years after he was killed for challenging the Mafia in his hometown, Sicilian leader Placido Rizzotto is finally being laid to rest, the BBC's Alan Johnston reports.
The true story of Sicilian trade union organizer Placido Rizzotto's struggle against Mafia corruption and control of the unions, appropriation of land, and exploitation of peasant workers during the early days of the Corleonese Mafia in the late 1940s.
Sep 8, 2000 · Placido Rizzotto. While dramas about the scourge of the Cosa Nostra on Sicily and its people have long been a staple of Italian cinema, Pasquale Scimeca's "Placido Rizzotto" is more than a cut...
Oct 20, 2000 · Overview. As a child, Sicilian Placido Rizzotto saw his father imprisoned for a crime he didn't commit, and as a young man he fought in World War II, first as a soldier and then as an anti-fascist partisan. These events have left Placido with little taste for petty tyranny and with a desire to promote social justice.
