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Director
  
Marco Amenta

Initial DVD release
  
November 30, 2010

Duration
  

Language
  
Italian, Sicilian

7/10
IMDb

Genre
  
Crime, Drama

Music director
  
Pasquale Catalano

Country
  
Italy

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Release date
  
October 29, 2008 (2008-10-29) (Rome International Film Festival) February 27, 2009 (2009-02-27) (Italy)

Writer
  
Marco Amenta (story), Marco Amenta (screenplay), Sergio Donati (screenplay), Gianni Romoli

Cast
  
Veronica D'Agostino
(Rita),
Gérard Jugnot
(Judge),
Francesco Casisa
(Vito),
Marcello Mazzarella
(Don Michele),
Mario Pupella
(Don Salvo),
Paolo Briguglia
(Bruni)

Similar movies
  
Gerard Jugnot movies, Set in Sicily, Mafia movies

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

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The Sicilian Girl (Italian: La siciliana ribelle) is a 2008 Italian film directed by Marco Amenta. The film is inspired by the story of Rita Atria, a key witness in a major Mafia investigation in Sicily.

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Synopsis

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Beginning 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.

Reception

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For The Sicilian Girl, Amenta received a David di Donatello nomination for Best New Director. According to a New York Times movie review, the film is hobbled by sluggish direction by Amenta, who previously addressed Atria’s story in his 1997 documentary, One Girl Against the Mafia: Diary of a Sicilian Rebel.

Rita Atria's family have condemned the film; Atria's niece, Vita Maria Atria, said that "I don't believe that any of this helps to commemorate my aunt, but only serves economic ends which I really do not consider appropriate."

Cast

  • Veronica D'Agostino as Rita Mancuso
  • Miriana Faja as Young Rita
  • Francesco Casisa as Vito
  • Carmelo Galati as Rita's brother
  • Gérard Jugnot as Prosecutor
  • Marcello Mazzarella as Don Michele
  • Mario Pupella as Zio Salvo
  • Primo Reggiani as Lorenzo
  • Lorenzo Rosone as Young Vito
  • Lucia Sardo as Rita's mother
  • References

    The Sicilian Girl Wikipedia
    The Sicilian Girl IMDb The Sicilian Girl themoviedb.org