A quiet life - the mafia does not forget
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | A quiet life - the mafia does not forget |
| Original title | Una vita tranquilla |
| Country of production | Italy |
| original language | Italian , German |
| Publishing year | 2010 |
| length | 105 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Claudio Cupellini |
| script |
Filippo Gravino , Guido Iuculano , Claudio Cupellini |
| production | Fabrizio Mosca |
| camera | Gergely Pohárnok |
| cut | Giuseppe Trepiccione |
| occupation | |
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A Quiet Life - The Mafia Doesn't Forget (original title: Una vita tranquilla ) is a feature film by Claudio Cupellini from 2010, which was released in Germany on May 24, 2012.
action
The film is about the ex-mafioso Rosario Russo, who murdered several people as a killer under the name Antonio De Martino on behalf of the mafia boss Mario Fiore and who fled a vendetta to Germany. He lets those around him believe that he has died. His wife and son stay behind in Italy. After a period of hiding in Hamburg, he built up a second life near Wiesbaden, opened a prosperous Italian restaurant and hotel with the new identity of Rosario Russo and became the father of their son Mathias with his new wife Renate.
Around fifteen years later, his Italian son Diego, who is now in his mid-twenties and also works for the Mafia, suddenly turns up in his restaurant. He and his colleague Edoardo are planning to assassinate the manager of a waste incineration plant in the region. Rosario initially offers them accommodation, but then learns about the man's murder. Diego and Edoardo notice Rosario at the scene, but carry out the murder anyway. Horrified, he asks the two of them to leave his hotel. Edoardo becomes suspicious and concludes from Diego's information that Rosario is his father. Rosario fears this exposure of his identity and gets a rifle from a hunter friend. Rosario first knocks Edoardo down over dinner in the hotel's wine cellar, then shoots him and burying the body with Diego in the forest. From this Rosario is betrayed to his Italian opponents. Diego kidnaps his half-brother Mathias and thus forces Rosario to Italy. Mathias remains unscathed at a motorway service station, while Diego delivers his father with a gun drawn to two mafiosi who know him from before. When his father was handed over to the Mafia, Diego had doubts and he and his father tried to escape the attack on him. Diego dies in a hail of bullets. Rosario manages to escape, he picks up Mathias at the rest stop and brings him back to Germany. Immediately afterwards, he leaves his family one more time and goes into hiding again.
background
The film plot roughly corresponds to the situation of the Mafia murders in Duisburg . In these murders it became apparent that the arm of the Italian Mafia reached as far as Germany.
criticism
“Consuming more from the interpersonal tension of the carefully contoured figures than from external action, the film unfolds as a silent thriller around a 'Cain's mark' of violence that cannot be shaken off. Suggestive in the imagery, carried by excellent actors, he skillfully plays with uncertainties. "
"While the staging of everyday family life at the beginning of the film seems awkward in places, it finds a truly abysmal dynamic when the character and family drama ultimately turns into a mafia thriller."
Web links
- A quiet life - The Mafia never forgets in the Internet Movie Database (English)
supporting documents
- ↑ Certificate of Release for A Quiet Life - The Mafia Doesn't Forget . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , May 2012 (PDF; test number: 132 846 K).
- ↑ a b A Quiet Life - The Mafia Doesn't Forget. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed September 29, 2018 .
- ↑ a b review of A Quiet Life as an article in epd Film from May 1, 2012; Retrieved November 29, 2017