The Sicilian Girl

Name: The Sicilian Girl
Director: Marco Amenta
Genre: Drama
Released: 2008-12-31
Duration: 1 h 53 min
Rating: 6.2
Cast: Veronica D'Agostino, Marcello Mazzarella, Gérard Jugnot, Francesco Casisa, Paolo Briguglia

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

2008

1h 53m

Drama

Director: Marco Amenta

Writers: Sergio Donati, Marco Amenta

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...