KOZA NOSTRA

  • Genre: comedy
  • Type: theatrical feature film
  • Year: 2020-2022
  • Status: completed
  • Production: FILM.UA Production
  • Running time: 100 min

When Vlada Koza, a mature Ukrainian woman, intrusive and caring, becomes a grandmother for the first time, she drops everything and travels to Sicily from her home in the Carpathian mountains to join her daughter... without warning!

But the girl does not appreciate her mother's suffocating attention, so she puts her at the door without much hesitation. Thus, Vlada finds herself alone and penniless in the Sicilian hinterland. An unexpected car accident makes her become the unlikely governess of Don Fredo, boss of the Laganàs: a dysfunctional mafia family struggling to survive in the modern world.

The irrepressible intrusiveness of Vlada, who loves feeling useful, taking care of others, fixing things and giving advice, seems to bring a hint of palpable well-being within the walls of Villa Laganà...

At least until the day she finds out who Don Fredo and his children really are!

Director: Giovanni Dota
Producer: Kateryna Vyshnevska, Maria Grazia Saccà, Victor Mirsky, Agostino Saccà
Executive producer: Sergey Demidov
Director of photography: Carlo Rinaldi
Scriptwriter: Anastasiia Lodkina, Matteo Visconti, Giovanni Dota, Giulia Magda Martinez
Story by: Anastasiia Lodkina
Costume designer: Marina Roberti
Cast:

 Irma Vitovska (Vlada Kosa), Giovanni Calcagno (Fredo Lagana), Giuditta Vasile (Francesca Lagana), Lorenzo Scalzo (Luca Lagana), Gabriele Cicirello (Gianni Lagana), Yuliia Sobol (Maria Spatolini-Koza)