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I'm Not Scared (2003)

I'm Not Scared poster
Original title
Io non ho paura
Directed by
Gabriele Salvatores
Genre
drama film, crime film, mystery film
Country
United Kingdom, Italy, Spain
Runtime
1h 49m
Rated
R
Rating
7.1 of 10 from 969 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

In a small Italian town during the 1970s, a nine-year-old boy finds a hidden crime that involves the local community. He must decide whether to stay quiet or do what he feels is right.

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What happens

I'm Not Scared (Italian: Io non ho paura, lit. I Am Not Afraid) is a 2003 Italian crime mystery thriller film directed by Gabriele Salvatores. Francesa Marciano and Niccolò Ammaniti wrote the script, basing it on Ammaniti's successful 2001 Italian novel with the same name. The story is set during Italy's "Years of Lead", a time in the 1970s riddled with terrorism and kidnapping, and tells the story of a nine-year-old boy who discovers a terrible crime committed by the entire population of his southern Italian town. Although selected as the Italian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 76th Academy Awards, it was not nominated. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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