Koza Nostra

May 5, 2022

1h 40m

★ 6.0

Mom's coming.

Overview

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!

Genres

Comedy

Production Companies

Pepito Produzioni

MiC

FILM.UA Group

RAI Cinema

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Cast

Vlada Koza

Irma Vitovska

Fredo Laganà

Giovanni Calcagno

Francesca Laganà

Giuditta Vasile

Gianni Laganà

Gabriele Cicirello

Don Tano Soldi

Vincenzo Pirrotta

Luca Laganà

Lorenzo Scalzo

Maurizio Bologna

Davide

Adriano Pantaleo

Yuliia Sobol

Jimi Durotoye

Volodymyr Protsiuk

Dmytro Vivchariuk

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