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DVDs and books in Messina Denaro's lair, from Coppola to Bukowsky

2023-02-19T13:13:04.269Z


Found 212 films and 56 volumes. Also "Sex and the City", "Apocalypse now" and "Django Unchained" by Tarantino (ANSA)


During his fugitive, the boss Matteo Messina Denaro, arrested on 16 January last, spent his time in his apartment in via Cb, in Campobello di Mazara, reading or watching films.

The Carabinieri del Ros found 212 DVDs in the living room where the posters of The Godfather and The Joker were hung.

They were arranged next to the television: the first was "

History of fascism - the origins 1912-1922, Mussolini's first steps in government

", a Rai Trade production.

Then, "

Apocalypse now

" by Francis Ford Coppola and "The Last Warrior", starring Jean Reno. Following, "Alexandre", focused on the figure of Alexander the Great, and "A perfect plan", a French comedy of 2012, and still "

Django Unchained" by

Quentin Tarantino

.

Or "The Immortal" directed by Marco D'Amore, the story of a Camorrista.

But also The fisherman of dreams or Up in the clouds, starring Ryan Bingham who is a cynical manager, defined as a "head cutter", who lives perpetually on the road.

He doesn't have a love life, living between airports and hotels, collecting miles from the frequent flyer program of American Airlines, his favorite airline.

After many years of living as a frantic traveler, Ryan has no desire to change at all, but, throughout the story, he falls in love with Alex, a charming independent woman, met at a restaurant during a trip, very similar in lifestyle to him.

And again "

Robin Hood ", " Attack on power

", but also the " Solitaire ", the film that tells of a mercenary killer who kills on behalf of the Japanese underworld.

In the collection there is also "The Mole", set in October 1973.

He was also fond of "Man on fire", the story of a bodyguard in the Mexico City of kidnappings.

He had also seen "I will find you", the story of a former CIA agent, a great expert in hand-to-hand combat and in the use of weapons, "endowed with an impressive ability to kill - it is written on the DVD cover - and also to torture people in cold blood without the slightest remorse".

The boss also saw more frivolous genres such as "

Sex and the City

". He also had the film Gladiator in his collection.

In his library, carefully arranged, 56 books.

For reading, the boss was fond of authors such as

Charles Bukowsky

of whom he owned five books, including The sun kisses the beautiful.

And

If This Is A Man

by Primo Levi

and The Disappearance of Josef Mengele by Oliver Guez.

But also a book about what he perhaps considered a myth of him: Pablo Escobar.

the master of evil.

And yet White Nights by Fedor Dostoevskij and several mystery books.

Or cult writers: Haruki Murakami with the two volumes of The Assassination of the Commendatore.

And then Viva il latino by Nicola Gardini and the novel

Putin - the last tsar - from St. Petersburg to the Ukraine

by Nicolai Lilin.


Source: ansa

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