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Antonio Perrone, like most students, wasn't sure what to do for a career after he graduated from college in the 1980s, so he decided to start his own business. However, Perrone went into a field the average college grad ignores -- organized crime. Perrone was the founder of Sacra Corona Unita (Sacred United Crown), an Italian criminal family who brought a new sense of business smarts and youthful perspective to the illegal business community, and set up operations in Southern Italy, where they were less likely to compete with existing criminal networks. The rise and fall of Perrone and the Sacra Corona Unita is chronicled in Diario Di Uno Scuro (aka Diary Of An Affiliate), a documentary that combines interviews with Perrone's family and associates, newsreel footage, re-enactments and scenes from a recent dramatic feature about the SCU to tell the story of a remarkable chapter in the history of Italian crime. Directed by Davide Barletti, Edoardo Cicchetti and Lorenzo Conte, Diary Of An Affiliate was an official selection at the 2009 Karlovy Vary International Film Festival.