FILM

Il traditore

The Traitor

La Paloma Theatre

Thursday, April 27, 2023

7:00 pm

$16.00

$12 SDIFF Members | $7 Students & Military

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Credits

Year

2019

DIRECTED BY

Marco Bellocchio

Screenplay

Marco Bellocchio, Ludovica Rampoldi, Valia Santella, Francesco Piccolo

Editing

Francesca Calvelli

Cinematography

Vladan Radovic

Music

Nicola Piovani

Cast

Pierfrancesco Favino, Maria Fernanda Candido, Fabrizio Ferracane, Luigi Lo Cascio, Fausto Russo Alesi, Nicola Calì, Giovanni Calcagno, Bruno Cariello, Vincenzo Pirrotta, Goffredo Maria Bruno, Alessio Praticò, Pier Giorgio Bellocchio, Gabriele Cicirello

Producer

Production

IBC Movie, Kavac, Rai Cinema, Ad Vitam, Match Factory Productions, Gullane, Arte

World Sales

Sony Picture Classics

Review

The Traitor tells the true story of Tommaso Buscetta, the man who brought down the Cosa Nostra. In the early 1980s, an all-out war rages between Sicilian mafia bosses over the heroin trade. Tommaso Buscetta, a “made man,” flees to hide out in Brazil. Back home, scores are being settled and Buscetta watches from afar as his sons and brother are killed in Palermo, knowing he may be next. Arrested and extradited to Italy by the Brazilian police, Buscetta makes a decision that will change everything for the Mafia: He decides to meet with Judge Giovanni Falcone and betray the eternal vow he made to the Cosa Nostra.

In Italian with English subtitles, and partially in Sicilian, Portuguese, English.
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