MAFIA IS NOT WHAT IT USED TO BE

LA MAFIA NON E' PIU' QUELLA DI UNA VOLTA

By Franco MARESCO

FANDANGO - as SALES All rights, World

Social issues - Completed 2019

Twenty-five years after the massacre of the judges Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino, Franco Maresco decides to make a new film. Following Letizia Battaglia, he finds the inspiration for an deeply political, satirical film which wittily shows the contradictions of a whole Country.

Festivals
& Awards

Venice - Biennale 2019
Official Competition
    • Year of production
    • 2019
    • Genres
    • Social issues, Documentary
    • Countries
    • ITALY
    • Languages
    • ITALIAN
    • Duration
    • 105 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Franco MARESCO
    • Producer(s)
    • Rean MAZZONE ( Ilapalma-Dreamfilm), Anna VINCI ( Ilapalma-Dreamfilm), Nicola PICONE (Tramp Limited)
    • Synopsis
    • Twenty-five years after the murders of Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino, the Sicilian director Franco Maresco decides to shoot a new documentary to narrate the Mafia in our days. The project involves Letizia Battaglia, the brilliant “Mafia photographer” celebrated by The New York Times, and Ciccio Mira, the picturesque impresario who has constantly lived on the edge of legality. Ciccio Mira is organizing an event in the Zen district of Palermo, to remember the two judges killed in 1992: “The Neo-melodics for Falcone and Borsellino”. How has Mafia changed since its past days?