The Traitor
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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. 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.
Cast
- Pierfrancesco Favino
- Luigi Lo Cascio
- Fausto Russo Alesi
- Maria Fernanda Cândido
- Fabrizio Ferracane
- Nicola Calì
- Giovanni Calcagno
- Bruno Cariello
- Bebo Storti
- Vincenzo Pirrotta
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Metacritic
Feb 26, 2020
It has a television movie quality to it as if it’s a dramatization of a newspaper article, rather than something cinematic.
Hunter Lanier
Film Threat
Jan 29, 2020
Bellocchio’s approach to the story is at once coolly objective — the movie is part biopic, part courtroom procedural — and almost feverishly intense. He has a historian’s analytical detachment, a novelist’s compassion for his characters and a citizen’s outrage at the cruelty and corruption that have festered in his country for so long.
A.O. Scott
The New York Times
Sep 5, 2019
It’s at its best when showing how gangsters undermine their lofty notions of nobility with displays of narcissism.
Jake Cole
Slant Magazine
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