The Sicilian Girl

La siciliana ribelle

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

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...

Director

Marco Amenta

Screenplay

Sergio Donati

Screenplay

Marco Amenta

Screenplay

Gianni Romoli

Status

Released

Release date

31/12/2008

Original language

Italian