THE SICILIAN GIRL (LA SICILIENNE)
Category: Feature Film
Production year: 2008
Release date: 13/05/2009
DVD release date: 17/05/2019
VOD rental start date: 17/05/2019
Country: Italy, France
Genre(s): Drama
Runtime: 1:53
Director(s): Marco Amenta
Cast: Véronica d’Agostino, Gérard Jugnot, Francesco Casisa, Marcello Mazarella, Lucia Sardo & Mario Pupella
Scriptwriter(s): Sergio Donati & Marco Amenta
Production company: Roissy Films
French Distributor: Rezo Films
International sales: Roissy Films
Synopsis
Rome, 1992. « What I want after my death is a funeral with very few people. Just those who helped me do justice. My mother shall absolutely not be present not ne allowed to see me after my death…”.
Those are the words Rita Atria sealed in her diary. On November 5, 1991, the 17-year-old Sicilian girl appeared before the antimafia judge to avenge the murders of her father and brother, both members of “La Cosa Nostra. For the first time, a young girl from a Mafia family breaks the law of silence. From that moment her days are numbered. She will only have 9 months left to live.
Based on the true story of Rita Atria and judge Paolo Borsellino.
