"Salvo manages to distill an authentically unsettling atmosphere that speaks volumes about the state of modern-day Sicily."
Jordan Mintzer - The Hollywood Reporter
TFL Awards
TFL Production Award 2009 (€ 140.000)
festivals & awards
Critics' Week, Cannes International Film Festival 2013 / Nespresso Grand Prize
synopsis
A henchman for the Sicilian Mafia, Salvo is solitary, cold and ruthless. When he sneaks into a house to eliminate someone from a rival Mafia clan, he discovers Rita, a young blind girl who powerlessly stands by while her brother is assassinated. When Salvo decides to spare her life, something extraordinary happens. From then on, these two beings - both haunted by the world they belong to - are linked together forever.
info
original title
Salvo
genre
Crime, Drama, Romance
country
Italy, France
running time
110’
produced by
Cristaldi Pictures - Italy
Acaba Produzioni - Italy
in co-production with
Mact Productions - France
Cité Films - France
directed by
Fabio Grassadonia, Antonio Piazza
sales
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Salvo is hit man for a mafioso. While hunting down a man, he encounters his blind sister. She causes Salvo to question himself and his existence.
TFL Programmes
FrameWork 2009
Script&Pitch 2007
