Sacco & Vanzetti (Sacco e Vanzetti)

Stop!

Here!

This is the boss. Let's go!

Shit! Let's get out of here.

Stop there.

There's no doubt. It was anarchists who placed the bomb.

This is their "signature", gentlemen.

Minister, you must know that it's easier to falsify a flyer than to place a bomb.

After all, you are still alive Mr. Palmer.

Sorry to disappoint you.

Are not all these deportations illegal?

25,000 already got deported...

Do you mean that the anarchist bombs

against Morgan, Rockefeller and me are legal?

The objective of their attacks

is to terrify the unions,

the true enemies of capitalism.

You are poisoned by the red propaganda.

Your department is accused to infiltrate the unions.

Hundreds of spies and specialized provokers,

a full special espionage unit.

Also you are poisoned by the red propaganda!

The Bishop of New York says:

The country is imprisoned by the panic and the hysteria.

Another infamous part of the history of the United States.

Is the Catholic Church

also poisoned by the red propaganda?

The bishop take care of souls,

I take care of my country.

In Boston the Secretary of State declared:

"If we could...

we would deport them and shoot them."

- Do you agree? - Well, I wouldn't shoot them.

Why don't you say anything to us about Andrea Salcedo?

Like what?

How he mysteriously fell

from the 14th floor of the Police Department.

You are an anarchist!

The Minister of Labor is in opposition to the deportations.

Is he perhaps also a red rebel?

Soon we will know who is

the leader of the reds in our country.

Are you accusing the Minister of Labor?

I am not accusing anyone.

A few good quotes for the special edition...

- Who is it? - My name is Boda, Mrs. Johnson.

- I'm here to get my car. - One moment.

What's up?

It's the Italian, Mr. Boda, he's not alone.

Call the police.

Tell them that they are here.

I'll do that.

He's on the phone.

He's on the phone!

We shouldn't stay.

Sorry, we have to leave immediately.

No problem, I will help you tomorrow.

Stop it!

You're under arrest!

A Colt 32. Found in the pocket of Nicola Sacco.

32 bullets of various brands.

One Harrington & Richardson, caliber 38,

fully loaded.

Found in the pockets of the other fellow, Bartolomeo Vanzetti.

They deny illegal arms possession.

So what do you say?

Mr. Sacco, would you have the kindness to respond?

- We don't have permission to carry arms. - I don't know how to express myself.

Italians, right?

U.S. citizens?

Anarchists.

You know, Mr. Sacco, you have nothing to fear.

- You understand me? - More or less.

You said that you don't speak our language too well,

but we will make everything to help you.

Do you understand me now?

Yes, everything.

Tell me, Mr. Sacco, why do you walk around armed?

- And with all this ammunition? - These are difficult times.

Doesn't it strike you, Mr. Sacco, that in these difficult times

not even a night watchman could go armed at night

without permission to carry arms?

- What did you do in Bridgewater? - I accompanied Vanzetti.

- He went to look for a friend. - What friend?

- Poppy. - Poppy?

Poppy, I know him only by that name.

An where did you meet this Poppy?

In the drugstore, like always.

And when meeting this Poppy at the drugstore,

why did you come armed?

Well, I wanted to see Poppy to request him to help a friend.

I believe he wanted to sell him fish.

That was a good one, Mr. Sacco.

"I believe he wanted to sell him fish."

And what type of fish?

Hammerfish? Swordfish? Or flatfish?

Bartolomeo sells fish.

And what do you sell, Mr. Sacco?

Lies?

I'm a shoe factory worker.

Who were the other three on the tram?

I don't know them.

They were friends of Vanzetti, I don't know them.

One of them is called Mike Boda.

Does that name mean anything to you?

No.

So you go out armed at night, looking for Poppy,

and end up at the house of Simon Johnson...

...and then with three guys on a tram.

Three guys who you say you don't know.

I don't understand politics.

- Union man? - No.

Then you are an anarchist.

No.

Do you by any chance know... Andrea Salcedo?

No.

Today, Wednesday the 5th of May, 1920,

we have interrogated two suspects...

...many contradictions...

Nicola Sacco, a shoe factory worker.

Wait.

The assault on the shoe factory on South Braintree...

...wasn't there shots fired from a Colt 32?

Hello?

Nicola Sacco or Nick Sacco.

Nicola.

Quiet.

It's been confirmed. Sacco did not attend his work on the 15 of April.

And the other case?

Nothing. No proof that the anarchist movement

have received any larger sums of money until now.

The hats.

Put the hats on.

Hats off.

Very well.

Now pretend you're holding a gun.

The right arm!

More lifelike, please.

Come on!

They aimed upwards!

- What...? - Quiet.

Don't move!

Turn against the wall.

They want to scare to us.

Now turn to the right.

You are lying, systematically.

Are you always lying?

I'm not lying.

You were armed, right, Mr. Vanzetti?

You're an idiot and a liar.

- Always lying. - I'm not lying, I insist.

Are you an anarchist?

You understand me?

- Are you an anarchist? - No!

A communist?

Mr. Vanzetti, don't make have to repeat all my questions. - No.

- A socialist? - No.

Answer with "No, sir".

No, sir.

- Union man? - No, sir.

Member of the mafia?

No, sir.

Where were you on the night of the 2nd of January?

Don't remember?

You're a liar, Mr. Vanzetti, a charming liar.

Do you recognize him?

Do you remember that day?

- Which day was it? - The 2nd of January.

This year?

This year?

This year.

And the 15th of April this year, where were you at 3 pm?

You want this question also repeated to you?

I'm trying to help you.

Today is Thursday 6th of May,

three weeks since the 15th of April.

Simple, right?

Where were you on

the 15th of April at 3 pm?

I was selling fish.

What's so funny about selling fish?

Where?

In Plymouth as usual.

You were not in Plymouth the night of the 2nd of January,

nor any other night.

And if I showed you another photo, Mr. Vanzetti,

a photo taken at 3 pm on the 15th of April,

this year, 1920,

showing you in South Braintree...

South Braintree?

As the District Attorney

for the cities of Norfolk and Plymouth...

I formally accuse Bartolomeo Vanzetti

for double homicide and robbery...

...together with Nicola Sacco

...and other unknown men.

These crimes were committed on the 15th of April at 3 pm,

on Pearl Street, South Braintree,

in front of the Slater & Morris shoe factory

where a bloody assault occurred in which