In rural Calabria, Southern Italy, the ‘Ndrangheta organisation operate a vast and lucrative network of drug trafficking, extortion and money laundering. Based on Gioacchino Craico’s novel, Black Souls is a fictionalised morality tale that leads us into the dark and sinister world of this very real mafia world, in which violence and vendetta are inherited from generation to generation. Using a blend of professional and non-professional actors, Munzi’s film focuses primarily on three brothers – Luigi (Marco Leonardi), Rocco (Peppino Mazzotta) and Luciano (Fabrizio Ferracane) Carbone – who become engaged in an escalating blood feud with a rival family, recently reignited through the impetuous actions of Luciano’s son.
Francesco Munzi
Italy/France 2014
Digital
103 minutes
Rated 15 – Contains strong language, violence, drug use
Cast: Marco Leonardi, Peppino Mazzotta, Fabrizio Ferracane, Barbora Bobulova. Italian with English subtitles
Showing Fri 13 Nov to Thu 19 Nov
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