(2024, Italy, France, 122')
The film is loosely inspired by the thirty-year fugitive status of Matteo Messina Denaro, the Cosa Nostra boss who was captured in January 2023 and died of cancer in September of the same year. It specifically focuses on the correspondence between Messina Denaro and an old acquaintance who was recruited by the Secret Services, hoping that the letters would lead to the boss revealing his hiding place.
Fabio Grassadonia (1968) and Antonio Piazza (1970) began their collaboration as classmates at the Scuola Holden in Turin in the 1990s. Their film Sicilian Ghost Story (2017) was the first Italian film to open the Semaine de la Critique at Cannes, and it won the David di Donatello for Best Original Screenplay among other accolades.
