Thieves by Law Crime - 90 min - 7.32 Thieves by Law, or Ganavim Ba Hok is a documentary film. To be able to make everybody aware of the facts that have changed the course of our democracy,” states Guzzanti. With the help of FBI agents like Joe Pistone (aka Donnie Brasco) and Carmine Russo the Mafia’s drug enterprise would be exposed and eventually dismantled. Battling the Yakuza Crime - 25 min - 7.88 Organized crime syndicates are deeply entrenched in. “The goal is to enable anyone – even those who don't read newspapers or essays – to understand what this is all about. Everything that is said in the film has been rigorously supervised and verified with the help of journalist Giorgio Mottola. During the press interviews, director Guzzanti explained: “It's a mechanism that allows you to switch between fiction and documentary in a very harmonious way, and that provides you with a lot of creative freedom.” As director, actor and producer, she has worked her way through an enormous bulk of documents: pleadings, newspaper articles, books, and audio and video recordings. The alleged negotiations between the Italian state and the mafia – one of the most complex events in the country's recent history – are at the centre of Sabina Guzzanti's film The State-Mafia Pact, presented out of competition at the Venice Film Festival and met with a long round of applause by the press.Ī 1970 short film by Elio Petro about the death of anarchist Giuseppe Pinelli inspired the basic concept of staging the film like an inquiry: a group of performers tells stories, reenacts situations, dresses up to impersonate different characters, in some sort of theatrical transposition.