The Sicilian (film) as the best film of 1987. The Sicilian (film) The Sicilian is a 1987 action film based on the novel of the same name by Mario Puzo. It was directed by Michael Cimino and stars Christopher Lambert, Joss Ackland and Terence Stamp. Salvatore Giuliano, the infamous bandit, together with his rag-tag band of guerrillas, attempted to liberate early 1950s Sicily from Italian rule and make it an American state. Giuliano robs from the rich conservative landowners to give to the peasants, who in turn hail him as their savior. As his popularity grows, so does his ego, and he eventually
The Don Flows Home to the Sea with Aksinia, the wife of a neighbour, and how he fights for the Reds, the Whites, and the Partisans. Much of the novel used an earlier, unpublished story Sholokhov wrote in 1925 about the Kornilov affair. The Don Flows Home to the Sea The Don Flows Home to the Sea (1940) is the second in the series of the great Don epic ("Tikhii Don") written by Mikhail Sholokhov. It originally appeared in serialized form between 1928 and 1940. The English translation of the second half of this monumental work appeared under this title in 1940. The novel follows the fortunes