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The Traitor is a film about Tommaso Buscetta, the first Sicilian Mafia boss who became a pentito and testified against the Cosa Nostra. It premiered at Cannes and was Italy's Oscar entry, but did not get nominated.
Jan 31, 2020 · The Traitor is a film about Tommaso Buscetta, a Mafia don who became a state witness and informed on hundreds of gangsters. The film explores the absurd and tragic events that shaped Buscetta's life and identity, with a dry and dark sense of humor.
May 23, 2019 · A drama about Tommaso Buscetta, the highest-ranking Mafia don to turn informer in Italy. The film re-creates the Maxi Trials and the murder of Judge Falcone, but lacks the theatrical flair of Bellocchio's previous works.
- Jay Weissberg
DRAMA, CRIME | ITALIAN | 152 MIN. The Traitor tells the true story of Tommaso Buscetta, the man who brought down the Cosa Nostra. In the early 1980’s, an all out war rages between Sicilian mafia bosses over the heroin trade.
Palermo, Sicily, 1980. Mafia member Tommaso Buscetta decides to move to Brazil with his family fleeing the constant war between the different clans of the criminal organization.
- Marco Bellocchio
- R
- 2 min
Sep 5, 2019 · Marco Bellocchio’s The Traitor, about the life of Sicilian mob boss turned informant Tommaso Buscetta (Pierfrancesco Favino), gallops so quickly out of the gate that it’s easy to get lost in the details of who’s who in Italy’s internecine mob wars.
Marco Bellocchio’s The Traitor is his latest slice of unconformist Italian cinema whose mafia tale is a brutal knockout. It has such a rare script that goes against everything...
