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Diario di una siciliana ribelle (The Sicilian Girl)

"Italian Mafia come to the cinema" series

Event Details

Date
Wednesday, May 8, 2013
Time
6 p.m.
Description
In 1985 in Balata, Sicily, the eleven-year-old Rita Mancuso witnessed the assassination of her beloved father Don Michele by a rival Mafia family. Six years later, her brother is killed by the Mafia as well. Determined to avenge the murders, she decides to break the code of silence and goes to an anti-Mafia prosecutor in Palermo with her detailed diaries to be used as evidence. Being forced to flee her village, she is put into witness protection and transferred to a safe house in Rome.
Cost
Free

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