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The Sicilian Girl (2008)

The Sicilian Girl (2008)

Drama

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

Release Date: 2008, December 31
Directors: Marco Amenta
Countries: France, Italy
Production: R&C Produzioni, Eurofilm, Roissy Films, RAI
Cast: Lucia Sardo, Primo Reggiani, Marcello Mazzarella, Gérard Jugnot, Paolo Briguglia, Giulia Andò, Mario Pupella, Lollo Franco, Carmelo Galati, Veronica D'Agostino, Francesco Casisa, Robarto Bonura

Overview:

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...