Open Doors

Open Doors is a 1990 Italian film directed by Gianni Amelio. Set in Palermo in the 1930s, a judge who is morally against the death penalty is confronted with the case of a man who has murdered his wife and two colleagues in cold blood. Opposed by both the fascist government - endorsing death penalty since it allows people to be safe to the point of "sleeping at night with open doors" - and public opinion, he struggles to do what he believes is right. Based on a 1987 novel, "Porte Aperte", by Leonardo Sciascia. The film was selected as the Italian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 63rd Academy Awards. Plot The film opens with a Fascist bureaucrat, recently fired, killing the man who fired him, the man who replaced him, and his wife. Cast Gian Maria Volonté as Judge Vito di Francesco Ennio Fantastichini as Tommasco Scalia Renato Carpentieri as Consolo Tuccio Musumeci as Spatafora Silverio Blasi as Attorney Vitalba Andrea as Rosa Scalia Giacomo Piperno as Prosecutor Lydia Alfonsi as Marchesa Anna Pironti Renzo Giovampietro as President Sanna Awards