In the late 1970s and early 80s, assassinations in Sicily get the attention of Communist deputy, Pio La Torre, who appeals to General Carlo Alberto Dalla Chiesa to become prefect in Palermo and take on the Mafia. Dalla Chiesa approaches the job with the same focus and methods he used in hunting down the Red Brigade.
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One Hundred Days in Palermo is a 1984 non-fiction film directed by Giuseppe Ferrara and written by Giuseppe Tornatore. The film dramatizes the last hundred days in the life of Carlo Alberto Dalla Chiesa, the Carabinieri General and prefect of Palermo who was murdered along with his wife and bodyguard for his anti-mafia activities.