Mafioso

Mafioso

1962 · 105 min · IT · NR · 7.6 (68 votes)
Dir. Alberto Lattuada · Starring Alberto Sordi, Norma Bengell, Carmelo Oliviero, Gabriella Conti, Ugo Attanasio, Cinzia Bruno · Music Piero Piccioni

“This is the face of a MAFIOSO...sometimes smiling, sometimes savage. Here is the story of a man who returns to his native Sicily for a holiday and finds himself again bound to the silent laws of "The Honored Society."”

CrimeDramaComedy

When a good-natured factory supervisor living in Milan with his Northern wife returns to his native Sicily, a decades' old oath forces him to fulfill a nightmarish obligation.

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A stark contrast between modern Milanese life and ancient Sicilian traditions. It's a slow-burn descent into a world of inescapable obligation, laced with a disquieting, almost absurd, sense of dread.

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