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Cinema in mafia boss’s Sicily hometown refuses to show film of his life
Venue owner says Sicilian Letters, about the Cosa Nostra leader Matteo Messina Denaro, ‘doesn’t interest me’
The owner of the only cinema in Castelvetrano, the Sicilian hometown of the notorious Cosa Nostra mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro, has refused to screen a film based on his life.
Denaro died of cancer in September last year, nine months after he was arrested following 30 years on the run.
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