The Sicilian Girl
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Initial DVD release November 30, 2010 Duration | 7/10 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) Cast Veronica D'Agostino (Rita), (Judge), Francesco Casisa (Vito), (Don Michele), Mario Pupella (Don Salvo), Paolo Briguglia (Bruni)Similar movies Tagline What would drive a seventeen-year-old girl to betray her family? And if that family was the mafia? |
The sicilian girl official trailer
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.
Contents
- The sicilian girl official trailer
- July 2009 the sicilian girl trailer english subtitles
- Synopsis
- Reception
- Cast
- References

July 2009 the sicilian girl trailer english subtitles
Synopsis

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

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
References
The Sicilian Girl WikipediaThe Sicilian Girl IMDb The Sicilian Girl themoviedb.org