Raro Video has dated its upcoming Blu-ray releases of Claudio Caligari's
The Scent of the Night (1998) and Marco Tullio Giordana's
One Hundred StepsL (2000). The two releases will be available for purchase on November 22.
The Scent of the Night
Synopsis: A former policeman turns full-time criminal and goes on a downward spiral of crime in the 1990s Rome. Based on Dido Sacchettoni's best-selling novel. Directed by Claudio Caligari, and starring Valerio Mastandrea, Marco Giallini, Giorgio Tirabassi, and Alessia Fugardi. Cinematography by Maurizio Calvesi (
Loose Cannons).
One Hundred Steps
Synopsis: Peppino Impastato is a quick-witted lad growing up in a Sicilian village in the late 1960s. He lives in a family with Mafia connections, one hundred steps away from the house of Tano Badalamenti, the Mafia boss who lords it over Cinisi.
He is murdered in 1978 - two days before the polls open - blown to pieces by six kilos of TNT. The authorities first see it as an accident, as though Peppino were an incompetent, provincial terrorist killed by his own bomb, then get to a more insulting and elusive conclusion - suicide, they say.
Twenty years later, Palermo's attorney general re-opens the case and commits Tano Badalamenti - now in jail in die United States - for trial as instigator of the murder.