Open Doors (film)

Open Doors (Italian: Porte aperte) 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 and public opinion, he struggles to do what he believes is right. Based on a 1968 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 Volontè 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
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    Party Party

    by: Elvis Costello

    We're gonna drink enough tonight to drown the average army
    By new year's day the next door neighbour will be goin' barmy(yep,
    That's how it's spelled)
    The milkman arrives at midday with his usual wisecrack
    Who knows a girl with wednesday legs so when's they gonna snap?
    Chorus:
    Why does everybody have to be so hale and hearty
    Can't they see we're tryin' to have a party party party party
    The last thing I remember I was talkin' to some fellas
    Then she said she'd have a word for me with her good-looking mate
    And handed me a pint-pot filled with advocaat and tizer
    And I woke up in the flowerbed fearing fertilizer
    (I would have thought "feeling fertilizer" would make more sense, but
    Maybe that's just me and my strange sense of humour!)
    (note: advocaat is a dutch drink, sometimes described as the "dutch
    Eggnog", tizer is a scottish drink (I think), it even has it's own
    Website: www.tizer.co.uk)
    Chorus
    Bridge:
    So shift yourself and shake your bod
    You got bullet proof insurance from fire, flood and act of god
    You got to learn from your mistakes
    When you got a face like last week's cornflakes
    The doors and the window frames are by pablo picasso
    The party decorations owned by michelangelo
    The fine music that you hear is by stravinsky
    With overall design by leonardo davinci
    Chorus
    Bridge:
    So shift yourself and shake your bod
    You got bullet proof insurance from fire, flood and act of god
    You got to learn from your mistakes
    When you got a face like last week's cornflakes
    Two boys are upstairs in your bed
    Three girls are downstairs cryin'
    The alka seltzer in the glass is roarin'like a lion
    You think you've aged 10 years tonight and still never been kissed
    So you overdose on aftershave and try to slash your wrist




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