One Hundred Steps

2000 · film

Peppino Impastato is a quick-witted lad growing up in 1970s Sicily. Despite hailing from a family with Mafia ties and living just one hundred steps from the house of local boss Tano Badalamenti, Peppino decides to expose the Mafia by using a pirate radio station to broadcast his political pronouncements in the form of ironic humour.

  • anti-mafia
  • pirate radio
  • sicilian mafia
  • counter-culture
  • sicily
  • political activism
  • italy
  • based on a true story