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The Traitor
Why this pick
A rigorously observed Italian Mafia drama centred on breaking omertà, where personal loyalties, state testimony and grave danger create the same sober, morally charged tension.
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MOVIE2008 1h 53m ITA
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
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 Omertà 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.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Gérard Jugnot
Judge
Marcello Mazzarella
Don Michele
Paolo Briguglia
Bruni