The Invisible Wall
June 27, 1980, an Italian DC 9 flying from Bologna to Palermo falls in the sea close to the Ustica island. 81 people die. The official version is "structure failure" of the airplane, but a number of clues lead the journalist Rocco Ferrante toward a different truth. Thanks to his perseverance against the invisible wall erected by air force officers, politicians, judges, secret agents, we come to know that, with all probability, the DC 9 has been mistakenly shot by a missile during a sort of air fight among U.S., French and Libyan top guns.
Casts & Crew
Corso Salani
Angela Finocchiaro
Antonello Fassari
Ivano Marescotti
Sergio Fiorentini
Luigi Montini
Bruno Vetti
Gianfranco Barra
Carla Benedetti
Eliana Miglio
Mario De Candia
Tony Sperandeo
Benito Artesi
Luciano Cozzi
Pietro Ghislandi
Nicola Vigilante
Mario Patanè
Paolo Buzzurro
Gianluca Favilla
Antonio Ferrante
David Brandon
Jed Curtis
Tony Kendall
Orazio Stracuzzi
Maurizio Rocchi
Salvatore Aiesi
Antonio Tognetti
Carlo Berretta
Gianfranco Salemi
Roberto De Sandro
Laura Rossi
Alessandra Guglietti
Giovanni Pellegrino
Jimmy il Fenomeno
Nazareno Feliciani
David Zard
Ivo Garrani
Dino Risi
Stefano Baldecchi
Cesare Bocci
Giovanni Boncoddo
Alessandra Borgia
Simona Caparrini
Alberto Capone
Gino Clemente
Lorenzo De Feo
Margherita Del Nero
Sandro De Luca
Graziella Diano
Clarizio Di Ciaula
Carlo Di Maio
Antonella Fabbrani
Alessandro Fontana
Raffaella Lebboroni
Susanna Mancinotti
Emma Marconcini
Antonio Marziantonio
Adonella Monaco
Letizia Mongelli
Manuela Morabito
Massimiliano Pagano
Salvatore Palombi
Margherita Patti
Paolo Perelli
Laura Pierantoni
Gianfranco Quero
Marcello Santoni
Giorgio Sessax
Gaetano Sperduti
Emanuele Turchi
Salvatore Zinna
Elda Alvigini
Maurizio Di Carmine
Paolo Buglioni
Tonino Accolla
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