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A Respectable Man is a film of genre Drama directed by Maurizio Zaccaro with Michele Placido
A Respectable Man (1999)
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Add to a movie listA Respectable Man (Italian: Un uomo perbene) is a 1999 Italian drama film written and directed by Maurizio Zaccaro. It depicts the judicial case of television presenter Enzo Tortora, who was falsely accused by several pentiti to be a camorra man and who died of cancer a short time after being acquitted. For his performance Leo Gullotta won the David di Donatello for best supporting actor.
Actors
Michele Placido
(Enzo Tortora)
Stefano Accorsi
(Raffaele della Valle (avvocato))
Giovanna Mezzogiorno
(Silvia Tortora)
Mariangela Melato
(Anna Tortora)
Pino Ammendola
(Avvocato Antonio Coppola)
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