The latest issue of L'Espresso, well-known monthly Italian magazine, highlights the extraordinary life of the ex-FBI agent Joseph Pistone, who was recently in Rome in order to take part, as a main character, into the film The Undercover Special Agent of the artist Rossella Biscotti. The important magazine commissioned to the famous writer Roberto Saviano an interview with Pistone, during the shooting of the film.

Text of the interview by Roberto Saviano
Images in the magazine are taken from the film of Rossella Biscotti

The film The Undercover Special Agent

In the background a recreated film-noir set from the 40's, in the foreground Joseph Pistone, a.k.a. “Donnie Brasco”, who is about to tell his extraordinary life story to the interviewer and filmamaker Rossella Biscotti.

The research of Rossella Biscotti taps into the information emerged from the investigation conducted by the agent Joseph Pistone, who infiltrated in the New York's Mafia from 1976 to 1982. Pistone is the only witness of what happened during the 6 years of the FBI undercover operation in the Mafia.

In fact, during his infiltration in the Mafia’s Bonanno Family of New York, Pistone never made use of recording devises. Once the trials against the American Mafia started in 1982, his testimony was, and still is, the only evidence to rely on. The reconstruction of the events occurred during that undercover operation and the recall of the language and the rituals adopted by the criminal organization are the focus of the film that will be issued the coming Spring.