The Shadow's Edge
2025 · Action · Crime
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Film / 1999
Excellent Cadavers
Directed by
Ricky Tognazzi
Palermo, Sicily, 1984. Examining magistrate Giovanni Falcone allies with Tomasso Buscetta, a former mobster, to defeat the clan of Corleone, the ruthless Mafia faction that rules Cosa Nostra with an iron hand, cruelly eliminating all those who dare to oppose its immense power: other criminals, policemen, judges, even innocent civilians. One of them wants revenge, the other wants justice. But only one can survive such an unequal fight.
The story
Palermo, Sicily, 1984. Examining magistrate Giovanni Falcone allies with Tomasso Buscetta, a former mobster, to defeat the clan of Corleone, the ruthless Mafia faction that rules Cosa Nostra with an iron hand, cruelly eliminating all those who dare to oppose its immense power: other criminals, policemen, judges, even innocent civilians. One of them wants revenge, the other wants justice. But only one can survive such an unequal fight.
Cast
Chazz PalminteriGiovanni Falcone
F. Murray AbrahamTommaso Buscetta
Anna GalienaFrancesca Morvillo
Andy LuottoPaolo Borsellino
Lina SastriAgnese Borsellino
Arnoldo FoàJudge Antonino Caponnetto
Ivo GarraniJudge Gaetano Costa
Gianmarco TognazziNinni Cassarà
Pierfrancesco FavinoMario
Mattia SbragiaJudge Quinzi
Francesco BenignoPino Greco
Mario ErpichiniJudge Rocco Chinnici
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Victor CavalloTotò Riina
Giuseppe CedernaJudge Giuseppe Ayala
Stefano BenassiInspector
Salvatore BillaInitiation Mafioso
Bruno BilottaSalvatore Inzerillo
Paolo BuglioniReporter #3
Luigi Maria BurruanoLuciano Leggio
Allan Caister PearceJudge Alfonso Giordano
Paolo CalissanoPoliceman #1
Fabio CarforaTrial Mafioso
Francesco CarneluttiJudge Antonino Meli
Carla CassolaChinnici's Wife
Giulio ColavolpeAnchorman
Marco ColucciClerk #1
Antonio Carlos De CarvalhoPoliceman #2
Joanna De CarvalhoMaria Buscetta
Massimiliano DelgadoGuard with Handcuffs
Giovanni Di BenedettoMichele Greco
Sandro DoriMafioso with Stapler
Cyrus EliasMagistrate #4
Lorenza IndovinaLaura Cassarà
Renato IzzoGeneral Dalla Chiesa
Frank KarlaElevator Magistrate
Emidio La VellaCourt Attendant
Loris LoddiSleazy Lawyer #1
Veronica LoganSecretary #1
Fausto LombardiMafioso #2
Gene LuottoArchbishop
Antonio ManziniMessina
Eugenio Nicola MarinelliPippo Calò
Federico MarrasEscort #2
Sonia MartinelliReporter
Ricky MemphisMafioso #1
Cristina MogliaAnchorwoman #2
Luis MolteniSleazy Lawyer #2
Raffaele MottolaExpert #3
Alexia MurrayAnchorwoman
Giuseppe OppedisanoPoliceman
Federico PacificiJudge Diana
Paolo PaoloniSenator Salvatore Lima
Elena ParisEmanuela S. C. Dalla Chiesa
Davide PetrucciManfredi Borsellino
Imma PiroCristina Buscetta
Elzhana PopovaMaria
Paryso PourmoneshiReporter #2
Mario ProsperiMagistrate #2
Pietro RagusaReporter #1
Carlo RealiPresiding Magistrate
Remo RemottiExpert #1
Luciano RoffiReporter #3
Stefano SabelliReporter #2
Riccardo SalvinoMagistrate #1
Sara ScarpatiLucia Borsellino
Monica ScattiniFrancesca's Colleague
Carlo SilvaniNino Salvo
Priscilla SperandeoCassarà's Daughter
Tony SperandeoStefano Bontate
Tony Sperandeo Jr.Cassarà's Son
Robert SteinerClerk #2
Andrea TidonaMayor
Fabio TofiEscort #1
Ricky TognazziPrison Director
Renato TondinelliTomasso Inzerillo
Maurizio TorrealtaExpert #2
Franco TrevisiMafioso #3
Emanuele Carucci ViterbiPecorelli
Stephen Joseph ScottReporter #1
Guido ZaccagniniPorter
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