Maxi - Il grande processo alla mafia

The Green Spaceship (1x1)

Exibido em:: Out 23, 2018

February 10, 1986: the "Maxi-trial" against Cosa Nostra begins. For the first time, more than 400 mafiosi are called to answer for dozens of crimes, in a huge courtroom built for the occasion. Italian State television network RAI also mobilises, with a special editorial staff that will be solely dedicated to follow the events in the bunker courtroom, which everyone calls "the green spaceship". The troupe is led by Franco Licitra, a 50-years-old news veteran from Palermo's RAI editorial staff, who knows very well Mafia and its phenomena. Along with him, we'll see the young Roman TV operator Gianni, who came to reinforce the Sicilian staff, and Teresa, a young Sicilian newly-hired and passionate TV editor. The very first days see the Court still taking the measures of this enormous trial, between bureaucratic procedures and organisational slowness, while the defence lawyers base their initial strategy exploiting all the potential faults of this juridic machine. Among them Federico Marsalis, a lawyer from Palermo that defences some of the mafiosi on trial. Meanwhile, the mobsters growl from their cages: the old boss Luciano Liggio tries to upset the judges with his attitude, while "pentito" Salvatore Di Marco threatens to retract his deposition. But just ten days after the beginning of the trial, a news arrives: Michele Greco, known as "The Pope" and head of the Cupola (Mafia's main council of the bosses), is arrested and will be trialled among other bosses.