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Original name: Iddu
English name: Sicilian Letters
Year: 2024
Run time: 122 minutes
Language: Italian
Type (Colour/ Black & white): Colour
Country: France, Italy
Director: Fabio Grassadonia, Antonio Piazza
Producer: Nicola Giuliano, Francesca Cima, Carlotta Calori, Viola Prestieri
Cast: Toni Servillo, Elio Germano, Daniela Marra, Barbora Bobulova, Giuseppe Tantillo, Fausto Russo Alesi, Antonia Truppo, Tommaso Ragno
Screenplay: Fabio Grassadonia, Antonio Piazza
Cinematographer: Luca Bigazzi
Editor: Paola Freddi
Sound Designer: Stefano Campus, Mirko Perri, Giulio Previ
Music Composer: Colapesce
Costume Designer: Andrea Cavalletto
Production Designer: Gaspare De Pascali
Production Company: Indigo Film, Rai Cinema
World Sales: Les Films du Losange
Fabio Grassadonia and Antonio Piazza, directors and screenwriters, made their debut in 2013 with the film Salvo, which triumphed at Critics’ Week at the Cannes Film Festival, winning the Grand Prix and the Prix Révélation. The film was distributed in 20 countries and won the Silver Ribbon for Best Cinematography and the Italian Golden Globe forBest Actress.
In 2017, Grassadonia and Piazza returned to Cannes with Sicilian Ghost Story, which was selected as the opening film of Critics’ Week. The film, previously awarded the Sundance Institute Global Filmmaking Award for its screenplay, won the David di Donatello for Best Non-Original Screenplay as well as Silver Ribbons for Best Cinematography and Best Set Design. The film was screened at the most prestigious international film festivals and distributed worldwide.
Sicily. Early 2000s. After serving several years in prison for Mafia-related crimes, Catello (Toni Servillo), a long-serving politician, has lost everything. When the Italian secret service prevails upon him to help capture the last major Sicilian Mafia boss Matteo (Elio Germano), who has been on the lam for three decades, Catello sees an opportunity to stage a comeback. A shrewd man of a hundred masks, Catello is a tireless illusionist and master manipulator, who turns truth into falsehood and falsehood into truth. As unique as it is improbable, Catello begins a correspondence with Matteo – using handwritten letters passed discretely to the fugitive with the intention of exploiting the younger man’s emotional shortcomings. It’s a gamble, one which, with one of the most wanted criminals in the world, involves a high degree of risk.
