GALANTUOMINI directed by Eduardo Winspeare (Italy, 2008)
Donatella Finocchiaro is a rising star of Italian cinema and with this film she has a lead role written specifically for her.
Set in Lecce in the 1990s, she plays Lucia, the right hand woman of the boss of a criminal organisation trading in drugs and weapons.
Ignazio (Fabrizio Gifuni), a friend from childhood, has followed a more straight and narrow path to become one of the top lawyers fighting the organised crime and vainly seeking to put a legal lid on the gang wars.
Their lives run in parallel and then converge in dramatic fashion.
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