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{{Infobox film

| name = The Mafia Is No Longer What It Used to Be

| image = The Mafia Is No Longer What It Used to Be official poster.jpeg

| caption = Theatrical release poster

| director = Franco Maresco

| producer = Rean Mazzone
Anna Vinci

| screenplay = Franco Maresco
Claudia Uzzo
Francesco Guttuso
Giuliano La Franca
Uliano Greca

| starring =

| music = Salvatore Bonafede

| cinematography = Tommaso Lusena de Sarmiento

| editing = Edoardo Morabito
Francesco Guttuso

| studio = Ilapalma-Dreamfilm
Tramp Limited

| distributor = Istituto Luce Cinecitt

| released =

| runtime = 105 minutes

| country = Italy

| language = Italian
Sicilian

}}

'The Mafia Is No Longer What It Used to Be' is a 2019 Italian satirical documentary film directed by Franco Maresco. It is intended as a follow-up to 'Belluscone: A Sicilian Story' (2014). It was selected to compete for the Golden Lion at the 76th Venice International Film Festival. At the Venice Film Festival, the film won the Special Jury Prize.

Synopsis



In 2017, on the twenty-fifth anniversary of Capaci and via D'Amelio bombings, where the Sicilian Mafia murdered antimafia judges Giovanni Falconeand Paolo Borsellino, director Franco Maresco wonders what's left of their ideals and struggles in contemporary Sicily, dwelling on its relationship with the Mafia through one of his usually darkly comic "anthropological" documentaries.

While discussing with renewed photographer Letizia Battaglia about the shallow institutionalization of antimafia by Italian politics, Maresco meets again Ciccio Mira, the shady Mafia-apologist concert organizer that four years earlier had been the subject of his documentary 'Belluscone': surprisingly, Mira seems a changed man, seeking some kind of redemption by organizing a Neomelodic concert in Palermo in tribute of Falcone and Borsellino. However, his words still betray some nostalgia for the "good old Mafia that used to be".

Cast



* Letizia Battaglia

* Ciccio Mira

* Matteo Mannino, Mira's right-hand man

* Cristian Miscel, a Neomelodic singer

* Franco Zecchin, a photographer about the Mafia

* Pino Maniaci

Production



The film was produced by Rean Mazzone and Anna Vinci with Ilapalma-Dreamfilm and Tramp Limited. Associate Producers have been Il Saggiatore, Stefano Casertano - Daring House, Moretti & Petrassi Holding, Amateru.

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