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- This movie based on true story is about a young Sicilian girl (Muti) who is raped by the son of a Mafia don who is trying to force her to marry him by taking her virginity, but she instead goes to the police, which is something women just didn't do at the time (and something only a few brave souls in Sicily ever did to the Mafia).
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Earthquake ravaged and impoverished Sicily is the background for the based-on-a-true-story tale of a teenage farm girl who, unlike pop gangster wives from Public Enemy to The Sopranos, rejects misogyny, abuse and patriarchy and wages a one-woman war on the mafia, her father, and the whole damn system.
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- Damiano Damiani
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Mar 12, 1970 · This movie based on true story is about a young Sicilian girl (Muti) who is raped by the son of a Mafia don who is trying to force her to marry him by taking her virginity, but she instead goes to the police, which is something women just didn't do at the time (and something only a few brave souls in Sicily ever did to the Mafia).
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- Crime, Drama
- Damiano Damiani
- 1970-03-12
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