Fine Pena Mai (No End of Punishment) is based on the crude and strong book “Vista d’interni” (Interiors View) by Antonio Perrone. Once we read it, we thought it was the ideal story to tell the 1980s in Apulia, when this new mafia, the Sacred United Crown, was born.

These were pretty tough years, that somehow went hand by hand with a sort of pillage culture of that area. We wanted to tell the story of this torn land: the Apulia during those years. We were inspired by this intense book as it does tells a love story but romance is set in this raped land that was just experiencing the birth of a new cruel mafia. It was just like a shooting star, as it lasted just a few years but it left over many mourning and tragedies.

I have to say that it is always more difficult to make a movie in Italy today. There’s this growing success and power of television fictions and series, that we are very proud of trying to tell a difficult theme like the one of the Sacred United Crown’s emergence. It certainly brings on different topics, like the one of the 41bis law, of isolation and that of ill- treatments in prisons. We believe that our is a needed film to tell a rough period that has not been faced but in judicial terms.