Corleone (1978)
Two friends grow up together in the Sicily of the '50s. Two different destiny, two different way of life. Could their friendship survive to the mafia shadow?
- Date of release
- 1978-11-10
- TMDB
- 7.6 / 10 (11)
- Runtime
- 1h 48m
- Genres
- Crime, Thriller
- Director
- Pasquale Squitieri
Casting
- Giuliano Gemma — Vito Gargano
- Claudia Cardinale — Rosa Accordino
- Francisco Rabal — Don Giusto Provenzano
- Michele Placido — Michele Labruzzo
- Stefano Satta Flores — Avvocato Natale Calia
- Salvatore Billa — Carmelo
- Tony Kendall — Salvatore Sperlazzo
- Fulvio Mingozzi — Avvocato di Vito
- Remo Girone — Biagio Lo Cascio
- Enrico Maisto — Matteo Agueci
- Tommaso Palladino — Vito Killer
- Vincent Gentile
Interesting facts
Father of the Godfathers is a 1978 Italian crime film directed by Pasquale Squitieri. It stars Claudia Cardinale, Giuliano Gemma, and Tony Kendall and is set in Sicily in the 1950s. Gemma was awarded 1979 Best Actor at the Montréal World Film Festival for his role.
Production
Father of the Godfathers was inspired by Orazio Barrese's book I complici, Gli anni dell'antimafia. The book was the story of the Mafia boss Luciano Liggio. After the release of Squitieri's previous film I Am the Law, Mario Cecchi Gori approached him to make an adaptation. Barrese and Squitieri were friends, but later stated that "I don't consider Father of the Godfathers as one of my best works, it's definitely inferior to I Am the Law."
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