In 1920, the anarchist Italian immigrants Nicola Sacco (Riccardo Cucciolla) and Bartolomeo Vanzetti (Gian Maria Volonté) are sentenced to death, falsely accused of a robbery and murder. Indeed they are condemned due to their political beliefs, in one of the most shameful and hypocrite judgments of the human history. 《萨柯和樊塞蒂》电影剧本。 在1920年4月,美国的马萨诸塞州发生了一桩抢劫案,一伙匪徒洗劫了一家皮鞋厂并枪杀了两名工人,鱼贩萨可和制鞋师傅方齐迪被无端指控为罪犯。原来两人是意大利移民,并信奉无政府主义,为当时美国社会所恶视不容,虽然两人清白无辜,最终仍被判处死刑。