SICILIAN LETTERS
A film by Fabio Grassadonia & Antonio Piazza
French Distribution • International Sales
SICILIAN LETTERS
A film by Fabio Grassadonia & Antonio Piazza
With
Toni Servillo, Elio Germano, Daniela Marra, Barbora Bobulova, Giuseppe Tantillo, Fausto Russo Alesi, Betti Pedrazzi, Antonia Truppo, with the participation of Tommaso Ragno
French Distribution • International Sales
Releases
World Premiere: Venice IFF - Official Competition
Genre
Mafia, Drama
Synopsis
SICILY, EARLY 2000s.
After serving several years in prison for Mafia-related crimes, Catello, a long-serving politician, has lost everything. When the Italian Secret Service “persuades” him to help capture Matteo, the last major Mafia boss still on the run, whom Catello has known since he was a boy, he sees an opportunity to stage a comeback. A shrewd man of a hundred masks, a tireless illusionist who turns truth into falsehood and falsehood into truth, Catello begins a correspondence with the fugitive, as unique as it is improbable, exploiting the younger man’s emotional emptiness. A gamble which, with one of the most wanted criminals in the world, is always going to involve a degree of risk…
