Open Doors (film)
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| Directed by | Gianni Amelio |
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Gianni Amelio Vincenzo Cerami Alessandro Sermoneta |
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| Music by | Franco Piersanti |
| Cinematography | Tonino Nardi |
| Edited by | Simona Paggi |
| Distributed by | Orion Pictures in USA, 1991 |
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108 minutes |
| Country | Italy |
| Language | Italian |
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.
The film opens with a Fascist bureaucrat, recently fired, killing the man who fired him, the man who replaced him, and his wife.
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