The Palermo Connection

The Palermo Connection
Directed by	Francesco Rosi
Produced by	Mario Cecchi Gori Vittorio Cecchi Gori
Written by	Edmonde Charles-Roux (novel) Francesco Rosi Gore Vidal Tonino Guerra
Starring	James Belushi Mimi Rogers Joss Ackland
Music by	Ennio Morricone
Cinematography	Pasqualino De Santis
Edited by	Ruggero Mastroianni
Release dates	1989 (1989)
Country	Italy
Language	English

Dimenticare Palermo (Forgetting Palermo) is a 1989 Italian political thriller film starring James Belushi, directed by Francesco Rosi and co-written by Gore Vidal. The film was released under the title The Palermo Connection in North America. The script is based on the Prix Goncourt winning novel Oublier Palerme (1966) by French author Edmonde Charles-Roux.

Plot

Carmine Bonavia is elected mayor of New York City on the issue of drug legalization. After the election, he gets married and travels to his ancestral home of Sicily, for the honeymoon. In the hotel in Palermo he meets a Sicilian prince who has been confined there for years because he crossed the mafia. He discovers the beauties of the Italian island but is also framed by men of power, for a crime he did not commit. He discovers that those men will stop at nothing to prevent the legalization of drugs, which threatens their business, and is forced to decide between joining them or going to prison.

Cast

• James Belushi: Carmine Bonavia
• Mimi Rogers: Carrie
• Joss Ackland: the boss
• Vittorio Gassman: the 'Prince'
• Philippe Noiret: Gianni Mucci
• Carolina Rosi: the Italian journalist
• Marco Leonardi: the florist
• Marino Masé
• Sal Borgese

External links

• The Palermo Connection at IMDb
• The Palermo Connection at AllMovie