Salvatore Guiliano
Rosi's groundbreaking docu-drama charts the meteoric rise and downfall of its eponymous protagonist, a bandit who became a legend in Sicily after his violent death in 1950.
Using local non-professional actors and with his camera sweeping over the mountainous terrain that concealed Giuliano from his enemies, Rosi presents a vivid, neorealist-inspired portrait of a time and place.
Giuliano remains an elusive legend throughout; and in this way the film cleverly subverts the superficial clichés of a well-trodden genre.
Winner for Best Director at the 1962 Berlin Film Festival.
