Arquivo / 49ª mostra

Boston, the United States, in the early 1920s. Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeu Vanzetti, two anarchist Italian immigrants, are arrested by the police on charges of assassinating an accountant and a watchman. The trial was entirely political and did not take justice into account, for both were foreigners subscribing to a political doctrine that was opposed to the conservatism that held the reins of power in the country. They were not absolved - not even when, five years later, a third man confessed to having committed the crimes. They were finally sentenced to capital punishment and executed by electrocution on August 23, 1927.