The Traitor

About The Traitor

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.

Marco Bellocchio's The Traitor is a 2019 crime thriller film. The film is filed under 2000s, sicilian mafia, italian history, and anti-mafia.

Pierfrancesco Favino stars as Tommaso Buscetta, Maria Fernanda Cândido as Maria Cristina de Almeida, Fabrizio Ferracane as Pippo Calò, and Fausto Russo Alesi as Giovanni Falcone. At 151 minutes long, it arrived in May 2019.

The screenplay is by Francesco Piccolo and Ludovica Rampoldi. Produced by Canal Brasil. It is adapted from real events.

Better Man, Back to Black, and Come Into the Light make useful companions to The Traitor, all filed under 1980s and 1990s. TMDB voters put it at 7.6 out of 10 across 1,452 votes and it carries a R rating.