Una femmina is the debut film from Francesco Costabile, freely inspired by the novel Fimmine Ribelli. Come le donne salveranno il Paese dalla ‘ndrangheta by Lirio Abbate.
The story is about Rosa (newcomer Lina Siciliano), a girl with a restless and rebellious soul, who represents the many other women with the courage to break with the blood ties and codes of honour of the 'ndrangheta. She lives with her grandmother Berta (Anna Maria De Luca), aunt Rita (Simona Malato), cousin Natale (Luca Massaro) and uncle Tore (Fabrizio Ferracane) in an unspecified village in Calabria, between the mountains and dry rivers of Cosenza and Aspromonte.
Rosa can clearly see the dictatorial, chauvinist regime that her uncle has installed to manage the family. But she soon discovers that the rural Calabrian context, intertwined with organized crime, makes any hope of rebellion unacceptable and dangerous as her mother learned the hard way.
Locations included many small municipalities in the hinterland of the riviera dei Cedri. In particular, Verbicaro (Cosenza) in the Pollino National Park whose narrow streets and steeply-built houses provide the setting for the religious procession in the emblematic final sequence.
Other locations include Orsomarso, Papasidero, Santa Maria del Cedro and San Donato di Ninea.
Una femmina is the debut film from Francesco Costabile, freely inspired by the novel Fimmine Ribelli. Come le donne salveranno il Paese dalla ‘ndrangheta by Lirio Abbate.
The story is about Rosa (newcomer Lina Siciliano), a girl with a restless and rebellious soul, who represents the many other women with the courage to break with the blood ties and codes of honour of the 'ndrangheta. She lives with her grandmother Berta (Anna Maria De Luca), aunt Rita (Simona Malato), cousin Natale (Luca Massaro) and uncle Tore (Fabrizio Ferracane) in an unspecified village in Calabria, between the mountains and dry rivers of Cosenza and Aspromonte.
Rosa can clearly see the dictatorial, chauvinist regime that her uncle has installed to manage the family. But she soon discovers that the rural Calabrian context, intertwined with organized crime, makes any hope of rebellion unacceptable and dangerous as her mother learned the hard way.
Locations included many small municipalities in the hinterland of the riviera dei Cedri. In particular, Verbicaro (Cosenza) in the Pollino National Park whose narrow streets and steeply-built houses provide the setting for the religious procession in the emblematic final sequence.
Other locations include Orsomarso, Papasidero, Santa Maria del Cedro and San Donato di Ninea.
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Lina Siciliano
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Mario Russo, Lina Siciliano
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Lina Siciliano
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Lina Siciliano
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Lina Siciliano
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Lina Siciliano, Vincenzo Di Rosa
Copyright: Medusa Film
Fabrizio Ferracane, Lina Siciliano, Luca Massaro
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Rosa is a restless girl who lives with her mother’s relatives in a remote South Italian village. Her mother’s mysterious death when she was still a child casts a gloomy shadow on her present. When the truth emerges and Rosa realizes she is trapped in a same predestined fate, she decides to betray her family seeking revenge against her own blood. However, when your family belongs to the ‘ndrangheta mafia, a single failed step can lead to death.
