Excellent Cadavers

Directed by Marco Turco in collaboration with Alexander Stille, this 90-minute documentary is essentially a quick tour through much of the material covered in Stille's 1995 book, Excellent Cadavers: The Mafia and the Death of the First Italian Republic, a richly detailed and deeply troubling chronicle of the anti-Mafia efforts of Sicilian prosecutors Giovannai Falcone and Paolo Borsellino. Accompanying Stille and Turco for part of this historical journey is famed Palermo photojournalist Letizia Battaglia, whose haunting black-and-white photographs recorded much of the carnage that began inundating Sicily's capital, Palermo, in 1974, when violence once confined...