The Traitor

2019 [ITALIAN]

Action / Biography / Crime / Drama

10
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 73% · 106 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 73% · 100 ratings
IMDb Rating 7.1/10 10 14299 14.3K

based on a true story rome, italy palermo, sicily based on true story sicilian mafia italian history

Plot summary

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. But when, after living several misfortunes, he is forced to return to Italy, he makes a bold decision that will change his life and the destiny of Cosa Nostra forever.

Director

Marco Bellocchio Photo
Marco Bellocchio

Top cast

Miriam Previati Photo
Miriam Previati as Moglie di Cesare
André Lamoglia Photo
André Lamoglia as Felipe
Maria Fernanda Cândido Photo
Maria Fernanda Cândido as Maria Cristina de Almeida Guimarães
Pierfrancesco Favino Photo
Pierfrancesco Favino as Tommaso Buscetta
720p.BluRay 1080p.BluRay
1.36 GB
1280*682
Italian 2.0
NR
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23.976 fps
2 hr 31 min
Seeds 3
2.8 GB
1920*1024
Italian 5.1
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
2 hr 31 min
Seeds 14

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by fleyros 7 / 10

It's not a Mafia movie. It's story of a Man who was part of the Mafia.

I liked it. Although certain events of the so-called "Second Mafia war" took place, between the 1981-83, have been changed and rightly accelerated due to the film's rhythms (for istance the death of Salvatore Inzerillo is set in 1982 and not 1981 and is little bit different about how he was killed). Bellocchio has been able to discreetly direct a film that is not at all simple and above all with a character as a protagonist absolutely not easy to manage.Favino is certainly the strong point of the whole film, with a really intense acting from beginning to end. So much has fallen well in the shoes of Buscetta that sometimes seems to see and above all feel the real Don Masino. The Maxi-Trial of 1986, shot among other things in the Palermo's bunker room, the same where the real historical juridical process took place is certainly the point that entertains the viewer the most. The comparison between Calò and Buscetta is truly faithful to what was really there, the same thing the scenes with the other Pentito, Salvatore Contorno, the scenes when he speaks fluent sicilian slang are really similar with the original deposition, but having proposed with other realism also other salient moments with the other defendants was really classy. Perhaps the film falls just in the act after the Maxi-Trial and following the 1992's Massacres (Capaci and Via d'Amelio) , when going towards the conclusion by now the same Buscetta becomes precisely more and more "invisible" and without anything more particularly interesting to reveal.
Reviewed by elgaucho91 8 / 10

Finally a high-level Italian movie

From the debates in the halls of Palermo to the killings in the streets, Bellocchio delivers a very well done movie with all the characteristics to be remembered as a great mafia movie. Favino is just fabolous, great acting. A marvelous portrait of a piece of Italian history. Thank you Marco!
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