Thirty years later, the film from the “Memories” series tells the story of the eight police officers who died together with Giovanni Falcone, Paolo Borsellino and Francesca Morvillo in the mafia attacks of 1992 and was previewed yesterday at 18.00 at the ANICA cinema hall in Rome.
Before the screening, the President of the Republic received the Chief of Police – Director General of Public Security Prefect Lamberto Giannini and the families of the victims of the massacres at the Quirinal Palace.
“I was trapped, I can’t get out of this story” Imma so the film Memories “The Boys of the Stocks”, co-produced by the Ministry of the Interior Public Security Department and by the Presidency of the Council of Ministers – Mission Structure for the Anniversaries Nationals with 42′ Parallel.
The voice is that of Rosaria Costa, widow of the State Police officer Vito Schifani who died in Capaci, and summarizes the feeling of an entire country in a profound and intimate way. The sense of guilt that forcefully brings us back to those days, in Capaci, in via D’Amelio puts at the center of the story the broken lives of Antonio Montinaro, Vito Schifani, Rocco Dicillo, Agostino Catalano, Vincenzo Li Muli, Claudio Traina, Eddie Walter Cosina and Emanuela Loi, the eight policemen who were part of the escort of Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino .
Together with Rosaria Costa in the film the testimony of the deputy superintendent of the State Police Salvatore Lopresti, a member of the escort department of the Palermo Police Headquarters, who tells how the personal wound for the loss of eight colleagues is in fact also a bigger wound, which affects All the Italians.
«For 27 years I haven’t been able to go back to via D’Amelio – Lopresti says in the film because that stench of dust mixed with TNT and burnt meat always came back on me. Every now and then that smell still resurfaces, now 30 years have passed, I believe in the institutions and I hope that sooner or later the whole truth can be stated and that that truth will finally make that smell of TNT and burnt meat disappear».
«The horrors – continues Rosaria Costa in the film – are not used to scare us, but must serve to create memory, to understand that eight policemen, eight young boys died for us, for all of Italy. At the time of the attack I was only 22 years old, after thirty years I no longer see Vito as a husband but as a son, I feel like the mother of a son who has not received justice and this hurts even more ».
“The boys of the escorts” is a product made to celebrate the conclusion of the thirtieth anniversary of the massacres of Capaci and via D’Amelio, a film that points the lighthouse of memory also on who, precisely by virtue of his function as escort and protection agent , often stayed out of the spotlight. The film was written by Giorgia Furlan, Alessia Arcolaci and Josella Porto, directed by Gabriele Ciances, photography by Claudio Cascavilla with the supervision of Gabrile Ciprì.
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Thirty years Capaci and via D’Amelio the film memories “The boys of the escorts”