Tra few months the new film shot by the two Palermo directors will be released in cinemas Antonio Piazza And Fabio Grassadonia. He will be the first to tell the story of the underworld boss Matteo Messina Denaroafter his arrest. He will interpret it Aelius Germanus. But they will also be in the cast Philip Luna And Tony Servillo.
The film with Elio Germano was shot entirely in Sicily
It will be just the actor four times David di Donatello winner Elio Germano to lend his face to the former fugitive. The film – Letters to Catelloout in cinemas in September – will retrace the whole story of Matteo Messina Denaro, up to his sensational arrest, which took place later thirty years on the run last January 16 near a private clinic in Palermo, where he was being treated for colon cancer.
The film was produced by Indigo Film and was shot in Sicily, almost entirely indoors. According to what was leaked, then, the film mainly focused on the city of Trapani and its provincethe areas where the boss of Castelvetrano exercised his criminal power.
Elio Germano on May 10, 2023 at the David di Donatello ceremony in Rome. Credit: Elizabeth A. Villa/Getty Images
It is not the first film by Grassadonia and Piazza on these issues
Letters to Catello it will be the first film to be released on the figure of the ex-fugitive. And, apparently, it won’t be the only film to tell his story. The two Palermo directors who started shooting it in the first week of May completed the search for extras in mid-April in the cities of Trapani and Palermo. And they have assets other films on complex themes such as that of the mafia.
In 2017Indeed, Fabio Grassadonia and Antonio Piazza had released a film, Sicilian Ghost Storybased on the events related to the disappearance and murder of Giuseppe Di Matteo. The film – which opened the International Critics’ Week at the Cannes Film Festival on 18 May 2017 and which garnered 4 nominations and won an award at both Donatello’s David what are you Silver Ribbons – traces the story of the twelve-year-old dissolved in acid by mafia exponents in 1996 in an attempt to prevent the boy’s father (collaborator of justice and ex-mafioso) from collaborating with the investigators. This news item was part of the set of crimes of which Matteo Messina Denaro himself had been accused.
Waiting for Elio Germano’s interpretation
Interpreting Messina Denaro a few months after his arrest must not have been easy. And indeed there is great anticipation for Elio Germano’s performance. The 42-year-old actor is one of the most loved actors by the public. In 2020, he starred in the film I wanted to hide, in the role of the Italian painter and sculptor Antonio Ligabue. For this interpretation he won theSilver Bear for Best Actor at the 2020 Berlin Film Festival and won the 2021 David di Donatello for best leading actor.
The new test for the actor is therefore to lend his face to the mob boss, currently in the maximum security prison of L’Aquila. In fact, as soon as he was arrested, the 41-bis was immediately triggered for him.
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