The Sicilian Girl

The Sicilian Girl

2008 · 113 min · IT · 6.2 (43 votes)
Dir. Marco Amenta · Starring Veronica D'Agostino, Marcello Mazzarella, Gérard Jugnot, Francesco Casisa, Paolo Briguglia, Mario Pupella

What would drive a seventeen-year-old girl to betray her family? And if that family was the mafia?

Drama

Inspired to a true story, on November 5th 1991, Rita Atria a young 17-year-old Sicilian girl, goes to see an anti-Mafia judge Paolo Borsellino to denounce the Mafia system that was responsible for the murder of her father and her brother. It is the first time that such a young woman from a Mafia family rebels and betrays the Mafia. From that moment on, Rita's days are numbered. She only has nine months to live...

VIBE

A young woman's defiant stand against the Mafia, this film is a somber and intense portrayal of courage in the face of overwhelming odds. It feels like a tragic, true-to-life testament to the fight for justice.

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