The Hundred Steps

Marco Tullio Giordana was born in Milan on 1st October 1950. During the 1970s he was intensely involved in politics. After entering the world of the cinema, he collaborated with Roberto Faenza on “Forza Italia” (1977) and made his feature debut with “Maledetti, vi amerò” (1979), which was presented at the Cannes Film Festival and won first prize at Locarno.

He went on to write the screenplay for Antonio Margheriti’s “Car crash” (1981) and returned to a directing role with the ambitious and unresolved "La caduta degli angeli ribelli "(1981), where – like in his debut work – the scene is occupied by the problematic figures of terrorists. In 1982, he directed the musical video of Benjamin Britten’s “Young person’s guide to the orchestra” for the Salsomaggiore festival. Two years later, he made a successful two-part small-screen adaptation of Carlo Castellaneta’s novel “Notti e nebbie” about a fascist living in Milan in the twilight of the Republic of Salò.

In 1987 he directed “Appuntamento a Liverpool”, a complex drama centred around the tragedy in the Heysel football stadium in Brussels, followed in 1991 by the episode “La neve sul fuoco” in “Especially on Sunday (La domenica specialmente)”. Finally in 1995 he directed the questionable but thought-provoking “Pasolini, an Italian Crime (Pasolini, un delitto italiano)”.
In 2000 at the Venice film festival he presented “The hundred steps (I cento passi)” a protest film on the life and death of Peppino Impastato, which was awarded the prize for best screenplay.
In 2003 his TV film “La meglio gioventù” won the section “Un certain regard” at the Cannes film festival. —RAI