Ammazzare stanca. Autobiografia di un assassino (Tired of Killing. Autobiography of an Assassin)

Ammazzare stanca. Autobiografia di un assassino is the autobiography of a boy who rebels against his destiny as a criminal. His name is Antonio Zagari, and his is a true story. In the early 1970s, the Calabrian ’ndrangheta’s influence is rising and spreading from the South to the North. Antonio is the son of Giacomo, a Calabrian boss who has settled in Lombardy. After killing over and over again, he realises he’s not suited to that life: to him, killing has become unbearable to the point that now blood repulses him. His body rebels before his conscience does, but in this way, he puts both the people he loves and his own life in danger. While his peers are protesting in factories, universities and squares, he develops a refusal for those who exercise power and for his father’s ferocity. He must find the courage to go against him and to plot a revenge worse than death.

I read the autobiography that Antonio Zagari wrote in jail many years ago. His sincerity and his way of telling what killing meant to him left me speechless. And I immediately thought it would be worth it to turn it into a film, because a lot of things I’m passionate about merge in this story: action, family conflicts, desire for emancipation and rebellion, love, tragedy, irony. To tell this story, I had to venture into the fascinating world of gangster movies — with its wide range of possibilities — and let Antonio’s point of view challenge both common feelings and my own way of conceiving a story. I liked this adventure, and I was excited to explore the point of view and the feelings of a man so different from me, so I tried to convey this emotion to the images.

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