Onora la Madre (2017)

Onora la Madre

2017

Drama

Synopsis

“Onora la Madre” focuses on the role that women played in the 'Ndrangheta, because their presence in Mafia contexts has always been underestimated whereas today has slowly surfaced again. The short explores the manifold and contradictory 'Ndrangheta female universe in Calabria. It explains - starting from reports, documents, traditions, rituals, testimonies, words and judicial documents, the 'Ndrangheta telling the stories and the figures of women that inevitably settle and serve calabrian clans. Everything starts with a quite enlightening syllogism: family is the core element of the 'Ndrangheta, woman is the core element of the family, woman is the core element of the 'Ndrangheta. Analyzing the real universe of the 'Ndrangheta’s mechanisms we realize the real role of women, often extremely important even if destined never to be formally recognized by the organization.

Credits

Director

Giovanni Carpanzano

Cast

Angelica Artemisia Pedatella as Antonia Surace

Anna Macrì as Maria Surace

Giuseppe Ferrise as Pasquale Arena

Luana Montesano as Giusy Bonaccorsi

Nunzio Santoro as Giudice Giuseppe Mazzei

Raffaele Carbone as Giordano Cutrì

Raffaella Aloisia Denzler as Maria Bonaccorsi

Thomas Santu as Michele Cutrì