Excellent Cadavers (Italian: I giudici, and also known as "Falcone") is a 1999 television film directed by Ricky Tognazzi.
The film is based on the book with the same name by Alexander Stille and tells the real life events of judge Giovanni Falcone. It was filmed in Palermo and Rome.
The TV movie was broadcast by HBO October 16, 1999.
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Plot
In 1978, Judge Giovanni Falcone, while in Favignana attending a mattanza, learns that he has been transferred from the court of Trapani to that of Palermo. There, the investigating judge Gaetano Costa, a friend of Falcone, is assassinated just two months before retirement. After the death of his colleague, Falcone is assigned a bodyguard, Mario Fabbri. In 1984, he interrogates Tommaso Buscetta.
Falcone would then have to fight, alongside his friend and colleague Paolo Borsellino, against Totò Riina and Cosa Nostra, but also against the growing hostility directed at him—even from other magistrates. Both Sicilian judges would lose their lives in two separate attacks, both in 1992.
Cast
Chazz Palminteri as Giovanni Falcone
F. Murray Abraham as Tommaso Buscetta
Tony Sperandeo as Stefano Bontate
Anna Galiena as Francesca Morvillo
Andy Luotto as Paolo Borsellino
Lina Sastri as Agnese Borsellino
Arnoldo Foà as Judge Antonino Caponnetto
Ivo Garrani as Judge Gaetano Costa
Gianmarco Tognazzi as Antonino Cassarà
Pierfrancesco Favino as Mario Fabbri
Mattia Sbragia as Judge Quinzi
Francesco Benigno as Giuseppe Greco
Mario Erpichini as Judge Rocco Chinnici
Paolo Paoloni as Salvo Lima
Victor Cavallo as Totò Riina
Giuseppe Cederna as Judge Giuseppe Ayala
Stefano Benassi as Inspector
Bruno Bilotta as Salvatore Inzerillo
Luigi Maria Burruano as Luciano Liggio
Monica Scattini as Francesca's Colleague
Andrea Tidona as Mayor
Riccardo Salvino as Magistrate
Ricky Tognazzi as Prison Director