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Traitor, The [Subtitled] [Plays March 13 at MSP Film Society at the St. Anthony on Main Theater; for information, log on to info@mspfilm.org or call 612/331-7563.] Bellocchio's captivating, factually based, well-acted, insightful, violent, 135-minute, 2019 film that is highlighted by terrific cinematography and chronicles the tumultuous life of no-nonsense Sicilian Mafia soldier Tommasco Buscetta (Pierfrancesco Favino) who moves to Rio de Janeiro with his third wife (Fernanda Cândido) and family in an effort to protect his the while his sons (Gabriele and Paride Cicirello) and brother (Ada Nisticò) are viciously gunned down in Italy and after the Brazilian police arrest him, he is extradited to Rome where he becomes a hated, traitorous informant by "spilling the beans" to Judge Giovanni Falcone (Fausto Russo Alesi) to take down vindictive, revenge-fueled, murdering, heroin-trafficking members of the Cosa Nostra family, including Totò Riina (Nicola Cali), Pippo Calò (Fabrizio Ferracane), Salvatore Contorno (Luigo Lo Cascio), and Stefano Bontate (Goffredo Maria Bruno), during the exhausting 7-year trial in Palermo, Sicily, that began in 1986.
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