Shooting the Mafia (2019)

| Biography, Documentary | IMDB

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Director:

Kim Longinotto

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United Kingdom

Added:

2019-05-21

Rating:

15

Shooting the Mafia

When Mafia is involved, most of us feel some mixture of fear and curiosity. Italian photojournalist Letizia Battaglia started exposing Cosa Nostra at age 40. She was the first female photographer, employed by an Italian newspaper back in the 1970s to do that. Despite of regularly receiving death threats because of her work, the brave woman, born and raised in Palermo, brings to the public close-ups of the everyday life of people living with constant fear. Showing an original perspective to Sicilian Mafia, Battaglia confesses that her pictures have stamped so much pain, brutality and death that she sometimes want to put them all on fire. It was a good thing she didn’t demolish her archives, because today, through Battaglia’s arresting black-and-white photographs, we become witnesses of the brutal truth about Italian Mafia without the artificial romantic veil.

Added:

2019-06-15

Premiere:

2020-06-22
Trailer 1

Movie News

1/2/20

Photographer with her life on the line

" In some countries it isn’t without its dangers to be a photo journalist. There are people who don’t want their work to see the light of day and who in no way want to be the frontpage news. Italy was like that for many years. In the movie ‘Shooting the mafia’ the Italian photographer Letizia Battaglia tell about her yearlong work with following the Sicilian mafia and capture their horrors. Her images affected the public opinion against the mafia in the 90’s and put her own life on the line. The movie is directed by Kim Longinotto and has been nominated for best documentary at The Berlin Film festival and Sundance Film Festival. ‘Shooting the mafia’ still awaits a Danish premiere date. "