Bestselling novelist Niccolò Ammaniti
has directed a TV mini-film about a statue of a madonna found in
an 'Ndrangheta mafia boss's hideout that starts weeping blood.
The series, Il miracolo (The Miracle), airs on Sky Atlantic
starting May 3.
The statue affects everyone who comes into contact with it
including the Italian premier, played by Guido Caprino, the
general who leads the probe, played by Sergio Albelli, and a
biologist who analyses the blood, played by Alba Rohrwacher.
Ammaniti, who has penned seven bestsellers including Come Dio
Commanda which won the Strega Prize in 2007, has sometimes said
he thinks film can outdo books.
He said "when I thought of the swimming pool scene, of the
statue weeping blood, I realised that it had to be a film , that
the blood needed an image".
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