An Italian TV drama on women fighting
the Calabrian 'Ndrangheta mafia on Thursday won the Berlinale
Series Award at the Berlin Film Festival, the first such sward
from a major film fest for a TV production.
The Good Mothers, produced by Disney+, tells the tales of women
who have dared to challenge the Calabrian Mob, Italy's richest
and most powerful mafia.
It is directed by Julian Jarrold and Elisa Amoruso and produced
by Juliette Howell, Tessa Ross and Harriet Spencer for House
Productions and by Mario Giananiande Lorenzo Gangarossa for
Wildside, a part of the Fremantle group.
Based on the bestseller of the same name by journalist Alex
Perry, it features a brilliant young prosecutor called Anna
Colace (Barbara Chichiarelli) who comes up with the idea of
attacking 'Ndrangheta through the bosses' wives, mothers and
lovers.
It takes its cue from the true story of Lea Garofalo (Micaela
Ramazzotti), who had testified against her husband and Mob boss
Carlo Cosco (Francesco Colella), in order to start a new life
with her daughter Denise (Gaia Girace), only to be caught and
killed by 'Ndrangheta in 2009.
Anna goes on to discover the fictinal cases of Giuseppina Pesce
(Valentina Bellè) and Concetta Cacciola (Simona di Stefano), two
very different women united by a common will to rebel against
the mafia.
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