Percoco: Il Primo Mostro D’Italia
2023 · 104 min · ★ 5.8 · Thriller, Drama
Italian film directed by Pierluigi Ferrandini. On the night of May 26, 1956, a terrible bloody event occurred within the home. In Bari at the dawn of the economic boom, the twenty-six-year-old Franco Percoco, coming from a "normal" lower middle class family, carried out a family massacre - the first after the war to have great media coverage - and was consigned to the news as the "Monster of Bari ".
Directed by Pierluigi Ferrandini · Written by Pierluigi Ferrandini
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Gianluca Vicari Franco Percoco -
Giuseppe Scoditti Enzo Bellomo -
Rebecca Metcalf Cortese Tina Tezzi -
Federica Pagliaroli Angela Tezzi -
Laura Gigante Maria Panebianco -
Gegia Signora Leuzzi -
Fabrizio Traversa Rossi -
Antonio Monsellato Massimo Boccasile -
Pinuccio Sinisi Signor Passantino -
Raffaele Braia Ragionier Monno -
Pietro Naglieri Maitre ristorante -
Chiara Scelsi Ragazza del casino
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