Teen Rat Versus the Mafia in The Sicilian Girl

The facts are more gripping than the filmmaking in Marco Amenta's routine docudrama about tenacious teen informer Rita Atria. The 17-year-old Sicilian spitfire made jaws drop in 1991 by testifying against a homegrown capoâ€”a reliable way of commissioning your own murder. The Palermo-born dir...

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Source: The Village Voice

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