"THREE BROTHERS" "INSTITUTE FOR THE CORRECTION OF MINORS" " What does he want?" " To speak to you in person." " Where is he?" " He's waiting in the courtyard." "All right." "Come on, kids, hurry up." "You're always late for breakfast." "Bye." "Bye." " Good morning." " Good morning." "What's up?" "We checked and there's no doubt." "Your kids are involved." "They climb down those two walls, steal all night and climb back up." "And that's not all." "What can I do?" "Collaborate." "Give us some names." "Let me investigate first." "Don't waste time or we'll take over." "Donato!" "Grab it." "I wanted to cook it for you, but it ran away." "It was afraid of dying." " Hello." " Hello." "I have to send three telegrams." "Can I help you?" "Yes, that would be good, thank you." "Please could you write?" " The first one's to go to Rome." " To whom?" "To Raffaele Giuranna." "Judge." "Judge Raffaele Giuranna." " Address?" " Via De Leonardis, 42." "Text?" ""Your mother is dead."" "Signed, "Father"." "Your trial was assigned to me, but I still don't know if I'll take it." "I need a few days..." "to think it over." "Did you receive specific threats or do you have personal reasons for dropping everything?" "I'd risk my life if I thought it could change things." "I haven't slept for months." "There's nothing we can do." "It's like a death sentence without an execution date." "When I went out, my wife was afraid I wouldn't come back." "I used to stare at my children while they slept." "I couldn't carry on like that." "That's why I quit." "It's not because this trial is harder than any others." "Raffaele..." "there's a telegram from your father." "I see." "She's dead." "I'm on my way." "You sort out the ticket." "There's a flight at three." " Have it brought to my house." " Yes, sir." "Raffaele, I'm sorry to bring it up at a time like this, but I beg you... don't accept that new assignment." "Think about it." "One shirt will do." "I'm saying this because danger seems to excite you." "I'm not saying you enjoy the tension, but it intoxicates you." "No, it frightens me." "Fear can be a drug." "What do you mean?" "Last year I didn't leave the house for a week while you were in the mountains." "Oh, sure." "But you keep all the newspapers that mention you." "And you don't mind appearing on TV." "It could be a form of defence or a way of reacting." "Posing as a self-assured person doesn't necessarily mean you're strong." "I wanted to come to the funeral with you." "So did Giorgio." "But you prefer travelling alone." "I know you do it as a precaution, but that way the family gets split up." "Us in the mountains, you in Rome." "You in your village, us here." "I didn't want to cause you any bother." "You move us like pieces on a chessboard without realizing it." "Don't exaggerate." "I'd like you to come." "Where's Giorgio?" "He stayed out last night." " With that girl?" " Probably." " Well, let's call him, then." " I've already tried." "Maybe the phone's off the hook or they're not there." "See?" "It's not always my doing." "Well done for remembering." "He really likes it." "How will Grandpa live all by himself?" "Old people in the country have animals." "Not like in Turin, where they're always alone." "If you want I can stay and keep him company for a while." "We'll see." "Can you stop the car?" " Are you tired?" " No." " I see." "Can you hold it in?" " I don't know." "Let's stop, then." "Go on." "Do it there." "Don't look." "I won't." " What is it?" " People can see me." "Come here." " Do it here in the middle." "All right?" " But you mustn't look." "I won't." "All done!" "Rocco!" "My condolences." "Rocco!" "Come here!" "Quiet!" "Be quiet!" "They've stopped shooting." "They're ringing the bells." "What is it?" "Put your hands up." "Put your hands up, Rocco." "I'm an Italian like you, paesano." " It's over." " Donato." "It's over." "The war's over." "It's over, Raffaele." " Did she suffer much?" " No, luckily." "How's Dad?" "He's all right." "Marta, we're here." "The hot weather dried it up." " Don Vincenzo." " I was expecting you." "I knew you'd come, Rocco." "It's good to see you, although I'd have preferred a less sad occasion." "I'm certain that your inner strength will help you overcome your sorrow." "My mother liked music." "The little bit that she heard in church." "Here we are." "I'll show you what you looked like when you first came here." "You were four years old." " Four?" " Mm-hm." "This is you." "Look how little you were." "And this is your grandmother." "Do you remember what she told you?" "She was leaving you her gold earrings." "Where do you live now?" "I've got a room in a little hotel." "And the little girl?" "With her mother." "So it's all over?" "Who knows?" "She's got the kind of character that..." "A typical northerner." "We even argued about what to serve with orecchiette." "Butter and cheese instead of tomato according to madam." " That's just silly stuff." " I know, but let's not mince words." "She had her fling and I'm not one to sit there twiddling my thumbs." "You need to be sure it's true." "She told me." "That's a sign of love." "If a woman wants to, she can hide anything." "Maybe." "But we're southerners and I won't put up with this." "I'm sure she put up with a lot more." "I know you." "And I know you're still in love with her." "Here's your dad when he left for Turin to find work." "I don't know if you saw that film..." "Trevico-Torino." "The director must have had me in mind." "Turin was scary then..." "so sprawling and indifferent." "Especially for us southerners." "The Torinesi weren't the only ones to blame." "We were a desperate bunch and finding a place to sleep wasn't easy." "But I found a way into the big factory at last." "I started as an apprentice bodywork painter." "Nobody wanted to work in that area, so they put the newcomers there." "It was hell." "The poisonous fumes, the stink, the noise." "Then there were the Hot Autumn strikes." "Of course I went on strike too for better working conditions." "I caused the firm a bit of trouble." "I didn't shy away from showdowns with the bosses." "For you that's violence, isn't it?" "How about the violence of the assembly line?" "You know why they want to get rid of me?" "Because I question things." "I don't give in to them and I cause trouble." "But I've never believed in shooting people to bring about change." "Listen, Nicola." "There are twenty years between us and we've lost touch with one another." "I have trouble understanding what you've become." "I believe everything you say." "But I also believe that if they're threatening to fire you, they must have a reason." "If it goes to an employment tribunal, we'll see." "I'll investigate." "But if you theorise refusal of work and put it into practice, because that's what you're doing, you must accept the consequences." "The consequences are improved conditions and less unemployment." "Refusal of work isn't absenteeism or throwing a sickie." "Perhaps." "But since the threat of mass lay-offs, absenteeism has gone down." "Utopias have always created misfits." "It's a poison that attacks budding shoots." " Hello." " Hello." " Hello." " Hello." "These are your friends." "People from Rome." "They sending wreaths because they want a favour." "We saw Giovanna's picture too." "How is she?" "Fine." "She couldn't come because her sister's had an operation." "Did you see the doves?" "What is it?" "What is it?" "Eh?" " Daddy, why did you tell a lie?" " What lie?" "Mummy's sister hasn't had an operation." "Look, Marta, Grandpa's really suffering." "It's best if he doesn't know about certain things." "Go and play with the doves." "Your wife called from Rome." "She'll call you again at the bar." "Shall I take you?" "It's late." "I've got to go." "Thank you, Rosaria." "Nicola." "She's married now, but I don't know if it was the right move." "Her husband works in Germany." "People say she's not very happy." "Marta!" "Marta!" "Marta, where are you?" "Where are you hiding?" "Marta!" "Calm down." "It happens all the time in my job." "It's the same old crazy people." "How can I be calm?" "It's the first time you've received threats." "They started as soon as they found out." "They do it to everybody now." "You can't take threats like this seriously." "I've received threats before, for insignificant cases." "You never told me." "Of course I didn't tell you." "There's no point in worrying before I accept the assignment." "As if you'd refuse!" "Please calm down." "Calm down, calm down." "He wants to talk to you." " Hello." " Giorgio..." "I'm sorry I had to leave without seeing you." "It seems like... you're very involved with that girl." "Be careful." "You're too young for her." "Getting out of these things isn't easy." " I'll sort it out." " Good." "Your mother's very upset." "Stay at home tonight." "All right." "Bye." " 50." " 100." "A coffee, please." " Raffaele." " Hello." "How are you?" "Weren't you going to say hello to your friends?" "Come over." "They wanted to talk to you." "We were very sorry to hear about your mother." "Stay here with us." " I'm sorry for your loss." " Thank you." "Thank you." "Thank you." " I'm sorry." " Thank you." "We see you on TV." "You've become very important." "Should I call you Your Honour?" "What did you call me when we were kids?" "What's that got to do with it?" "Things are different now." "Raffaele, you came just in time." "We were discussing something that only you can solve for us." "This is the issue." "Must witnesses talk or not?" "You're not being clear." "It's about terrorists." "If I see who fired the gun, should I turn him in?" "I would but he wouldn't." "With good reason." "Take that 14-year-old girl who was brave enough to appear in court and identify terrorists." "Now she won't go out, she doesn't go to school, everybody avoids her like the plague and she needs police protection." "Her family's ruined." "Why would I want to testify?" "He's right." "Being a hero is a thing of the past." "Sure, as citizens we should speak up and defend our rights." "But a witness gets his name in the papers and his face on TV." "Not only his name, but his address." "Well, I mean..." "Newspapers should protect people's identity." "Even the police and the judiciary should withhold certain information." "They're full of spies!" "If others had backed up Guido Rossa and said they'd seen the terrorist too, if there had been 300 people and not just one person, he might still be alive now." "You can't kill 300 people." "In a factory you can find all those witnesses, but what if you're the only witness?" "I know it's not easy, because terror lives up to its name and replaces persuasion with fear." "But societies can't be founded on fear." "Fear's the exception to the rule." "The rule must be faith." "How can we live otherwise?" "Why don't we have capital punishment in Italy?" "They have it in America, in Russia, in France." "Why don't we?" "You didn't understand what the judge said." "Capital punishment is like fear too, right?" "It's used here too, but only by the terrorists." " When?" " What are you talking about?" "How are you?" "Sit down for a minute." "I'm sorry about your mother." "Will your dad stay here on his own?" "I don't know yet." "We'll see." " And how are you?" " The same old grind." "I'm retiring next year." "I'm still here." "It's not that bad." "I read, I mark homework..." "If I'd gone away and had a career would I be better off?" "You're right." "These are difficult times." "Perhaps, but hasn't Italy always been like this?" "Bloodthirsty." "Violent." "Barbaric." "Not the easy-going place that people think." "This chap's right." "It's always been a land of oppression." "Brigands and cut-throats, like in / Promessi Sposi." "What's the mafia, after all?" "Nowadays in Italy, just like in the past, there's no dialogue between institutions and the people." "There's no union." "No proper relationships." "All very true." "But there's no hope in your words." "And we have made some progress." "Unfortunately people believe they have an inalienable right to do what they do." "On the one hand there's the obsession with wealth and becoming rich overnight." "And on the other there's the foolish desire to change everything immediately." "And this deep contempt for human life." " Does Filomena still live here?" " Yes, she still lives here." "Thank you." " Who is it?" " Good morning." "Good morning." "What do you want?" " I came to see the fig tree." " What for?" "I'm Caterina's son, Lino." "Oh, it's been so long." "You're back at last." "How have you been?" " I'm fine." " I'll come and let you in." "Come in." "All those times you drank milk from my breast!" " Look how you've grown!" " Is the tree still here?" "Come on, my boy." "Come and see." "Come with me." "Do you remember all those times you used to play here?" "All those times you played here..." "Do you remember when you came to play here?" "You'd come here every day, my lovely boy." " Was it always so small?" " No, it's you who's grown." "The garden's full of snails." "I can't bend down, my kidneys hurt." "I'm an old woman now and you're young." "Don't you ever clear it out?" "My kidneys hurt, I told you." "I can't bend down." "Do you understand?" "I dreamt about your mother last night." "She's happy and well." "A Unicef report on congenital diseases, infant mortality, child labour..." "I try to persuade them to come to the Institute." "Once they're in prison, it's the end." "They shouldn't have been born." "But they were." "Each one's an extra pair of hands at home." "We're breeding scavengers, not just in Naples but in Africa, Asia and South America." "We need to do more." "Well-off people should make sacrifices for all humanity, not just their own family." "But to do this, we need to change people's hearts." "We need to be more gentle towards nature and our fellow human beings, otherwise these scavengers will overrun us here, there and everywhere." "I'm out of cigarettes." "You two don't smoke so I'll pop into the village." "Dad will put her to bed." "Be a good girl." "Where are you going?" "Into the village to get some cigarettes." "There were hundreds and hundreds of them." "Maybe thousands, who knows?" "Camping out in a disused barracks in Naples." "They were homeless and unemployed." "It was a meat market, the most depraved place you could ever imagine." "There were thieves, murderers..." "The police had to come in with armoured cars and tear gas." "A war." "Who is it?" "It's me." "Nicola." "What do you want?" "I need to talk to you." "Let me in." "It's late." "I was going to bed." "Just for a minute." "Let's hope no one saw you." "There was a cat out there." "I haven't been here since you got married." "That's your mother's dresser." "I remember it." "Can I sit down?" "Well?" "When do you see your husband?" "At Christmas and in August." "Maybe we should have got married." "I've split up with my wife." "We don't live together." " So what do you do?" " Same as you." "I'm waiting." "Sure!" "You didn't wait when I did my military service." " You only live once." " Exactly." " Stand up." " Why?" "You look thinner." "Let me see." "I've been standing till now." "Anyway, I weigh the same." "Come on, get up." "Are you in love with anyone?" "You know who's after me?" "The butcher's son." "He's a kid." "He's 16." "What would you do with a 16-year-old?" "No." "Not on his bed." "You're right." "Good evening." "A pack of Supers." "In Rome, after an extensive police hunt, 10 people were arrested this evening for theft and armed robbery and 15 were taken in for questioning." "Hidden behind a hedge, the killers took him by surprise and riddled him with bullets." "None of them were wearing masks." "Earlier, the victim had left his house to testify in a murder trial at the criminal court." "He leaves a wife and four children, seen here after the killing." "He was shot in the head, the back and the arms." "Your alarm clock had stopped." "I never use it." "How do you get up in the morning?" "Well... here in the country, farmers are guided through the day by the stars and the animals." "The cock always crows twice." "At one o'clock and at four o'clock in the morning." "Old people like me get up the second time he crows." "Whereas little children like you wait for the donkey to bray." " What time's that?" " Around seven." "And the stars?" "Ah, the stars..." "There are three stars." "As dawn breaks, they line up." "They form the Big Dipper." "And then there's a star called the Morning Star, which appears half an hour before dawn." "If I stay with you for a while, I'll learn all these things." "All these and many more." "In Turin there aren't any cocks or donkeys." "But there are stars." "Turn the light out and go to sleep." "Who is it?" "Let me in." "It's Nicola." "Where's the little one?" "Can I come in?" "She's staying with her grandpa for a few days." "Now you tell me?" "Calling from down there is tricky." "She doesn't even have a change of clothes." "They're looking after her." "Aren't you going to sit down?" " I'm not staying long" " Why did you come, then?" "To talk about our daughter." "Don't get ideas." "Listen, Nicola." "Our problems aren't the end of the world." "Thousands of couples get separated or divorced but still manage to carry on in a civilised way." " Even when children are involved!" " Have I been uncivil?" "I don't think so." "I left you in peace and went to a hotel." "Apart from my initial reaction, I've been more than civil." "Oh, sure... on the phone." "It's the first time you've come up here in six months." "Let's get one thing straight." "I'm not interested in a good relationship with you." " And not because of what happened..." " I admitted it." "You never would have!" " You're like crocodiles." " Who?" " Who?" "You women!" " Right." "At least we cry afterwards." "You never do." "Let's forget it, or it'll end up..." "You know how." "Have you eaten?" " I'm not hungry." " Coffee?" "I don't need anything." " How was it down there?" " How was it?" "Beautiful." "And a disaster." "Because for the first time..." "I discovered something new." "And very painful." "More painful than my mother's death." "Sorrow for your mother is something you can live with." "I think." "I suddenly realised my village was no longer part of me." "And I was no longer part of it." "My old friends..." "An emigrant's real tragedy is losing his identity." "He thinks he'll be happy when he goes home." "But he isn't, so he heads back to the city, to Germany or America, and feels homesick." "I'm not talking about the North-South divide." "Nowadays even northerners have to leave home to find work." "It's just that..." "Forget it." "They're hard-boiled." "I was going to make a salad, but I forgot." "I think... the little one really took to the country." "She talked a lot to her grandfather and to me." "I don't think... she's really noticed anything." "She thinks we don't live together because of work." "No." "She understood all there was to understand." "You're the one who's naive." "She must have seen you with other men!" "There was one man and it lasted a month, like I told you." "I'm getting along fine on my own now." "Yeah, for how long?" "I don't know for how long." "Right now I'm not interested." "I'm sick of it." "All I do is go to work." "I'm going to bed." "When you've finished, shut the door behind you." "Just like that..." " Are you throwing me out?" " God forbid!" "If you want to sleep here there's plenty of room in the bed." "No, thanks." "You can do me a favour." "Call my hotel and say I'll be late." "You call them." "Bloody hell..." "It's hot, isn't it?" "It's these walls." "At night they let out the heat from the day." "The walls are too thin." "It's plasterboard." "This side gets the evening sun." "I remember." "You should." "That's why you chose this apartment." "You're right." "I thought we could do with a bit of sun." "Judge Vinciguerra - Rome Criminal Court" "Detail of fatal bullet wound" "Police Sergeant Continisio, judge's driver" "Body of suspected terrorist, N Braduelli" "Police officer killed during Judge Vinciguerra's assassination" "Photo of suspected terrorist Braduelli as a student" "You know why they want to get rid of me?" "I know." "Because I question things." "I don't give in to them and I cause trouble." "But I've never believed in shooting people to bring about change." "Our jails are full of red and black terrorists." "20-year-olds with their whole lives ahead of them." "The problem concerns all of us." "We must condemn them, but we must also deter other young people from embracing terrorism." "What's the answer?" "What will we do?" "How can we save them?" "It's a problem for politicians, sociologists and educators, not just judges." "Right now they're killing at will." "I could be next." "I might be the last judge to fall before the hostilities end." "And frankly..." "Frankly, I don't want to risk it." "Yes." "We need to find some kind of solution." "Don't ask me how." "I wouldn't know where to start." "But there's no time to waste." "You're already leading a life that's not your own." "Police escorts are little help." "Even if you get a bulletproof car, it only gives you a couple more seconds." "I no longer have a fixed schedule." "I keep irregular hours and get lost in the crowd." "We've executed an enemy of the people!" "Nobody move!" "Hello." "Forensics have already been here." " Have they examined everything?" " Yes, sir." "All right, let's move the body." "It's raining!" "Oh, God, my ring!" "Donato!" "Donato!" "Come here!" "Come here!" "Giddy-up!" "Giddy-up!" " What's happened?" " I've lost my wedding ring." " What do you mean?" "Where?" " Here." "Bloody hell!" "What did you do?" "Hold on..." " Show me where you lost it." " I was here, like this." "Bloody hell, it's a gold ring." "Take it easy." "Hold on..." "Nice and easy." "You look too." "Don't worry, we'll find it." "Keep looking, I'll be right back." "Give me a hand." "We'll find it, don't worry." "We won't go until we've found it, all right?" "Come on, we'll find it." "Here it is!" "I've a right to oppose management without feeling that I've been branded a criminal." "You know my opinion." "Well, let's get this clear." "Our struggles, strikes and demonstration marches are a far cry from terrorist action." "Strikes are one thing." "And marches." "But there are different kinds of marches." "There are "self-defence" marches and marches for proletarian expropriation, where the marchers carry Molotov cocktails and P38s." "How many kids became terrorists like that?" "What are you trying to say?" "That union struggles to improve working conditions in stifling factories are the same as terrorism?" "No, but violence within the factory must come to an end." "Without halfway measures or permissiveness." "The unions only recently condemned roughing up department heads." "Roughing up isn't killing." "Nicola, you're admitting that beatings are acceptable." "What constitutes a beating?" "Smashing someone's face in?" "Leaving them lying on the floor?" "Has your bargaining power within the factory improved through beatings, attacks and killings?" "Refusal of work is an issue from a generation that you've never understood." "It's not my generation, but it still exists all over the world." "Even in America, where they kill department heads in car factories." "And in the Soviet Union." "Their nations don't topple." "But here, people like you, who claim not to be terrorists, accept the killing of innocent people - carabinieri, police officers, judges, businessmen, politicians and journalists." "You're not for the terrorists and you're not for the state, but you demand everything from it." "You need to defend it in order to change it." "Criticizing is a right." "You really think I believe this country's justice system is beyond reproach, and that our state is the best it could possibly be?" "If you want to change them, your struggle mustn't threaten democracy or liberty." "When democracy goes, everything goes with it, including the possibility of a better world." "You want that?" "To blow everything sky-high?" "Fear of losing your job is all that's holding you back." "Whereas you don't have a boss to fire you." "I risk my life every day in order to practice my profession, which is administering justice, not being a hero." "Why must you pay for those who destroy us politically and morally?" "What do you propose for them, a general amnesty?" "What about the havoc they've caused us, using us the way they did, always pushing us around?" "I'll never get over it." "Must we let bygones be bygones?" "Can we forgive everything?" "Until this shooting stops, any scandal, theft or corruption is a lesser evil than murder." "I never said killing would solve these problems." "It's unfair!" "You can't shut me up like that." "Stop it!" "Isn't all this going a bit too far?" "With our mother lying there..." "Can't we talk about us, your families, your children?" "You should have got married instead of worrying about other people's kids." "Finding the right woman isn't easy." "You weren't too lucky with your choice." "My situation's the exception to the rule." "I'd say it's the rule." "The exceptions are normal families." "So I'm the exception?" "Yeah, and I'm happy for you." "You never thought about getting married." "You never talked about girls, dates." "Nothing." "I don't go round bragging about these things like you do." "Tell the truth..." "Any women lately?" "Yeah, yeah, don't worry." " Well, tell us, then." " Leave him alone, he's embarrassed." "No, it's not embarrassment." "How long ago?" " A year?" " No." "You're something else!" " Just two months ago." " Ah!" "Who was she?" "What is this, the third degree?" "The mother of one of your delinquents?" "No, I've never done that." "A whore?" " I don't call them whores." " Yet you pay them." "Call it an act of charity." "Grandpa..." "Grandpa, are you sleeping?" "No, I'm just lying here." "Why are you crying?" "Everybody's alive." "Only Grandma's dead." "Go to sleep." "Grandpa, why are you crying?" "I've stopped." "I'm not crying." "I'm sweating." "Sleep now." "Pity me, O Lord, in thy infinite mercy." "May thy goodness cleanse me of my sins." "Why didn't we go too?" "I don't know." "They said it was better this way."