The Traitor

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The Traitor

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2020,

2h 25m,

Crime/

Drama/

Biography

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86%

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Tommaso Buscetta becomes the first Mafia informant in the 1980s Sicily.

Critics Consensus

While it doesn't probe particularly far below the surface of its central character, The Traitor tells its fact-based story with enough energy to entertain.

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Tim Robey

Daily Telegraph (UK)

Nov 22, 2020

4/5

Favino, a familiar face internationally as a lumpen heavy, gives a galvanising career-best performance...

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Donald Clarke

Irish Times

Aug 14, 2020

3/5

The Traitor has all the trappings of an indecently immoral entertainment. Yet it has turned out be oddly flattened.

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Kevin Maher

The Times (UK)

Jul 24, 2020

4/5

A complex character study emerges, one that is inherently unflattering (Buscetta is a ruthless killer), in a restlessly intelligent film.

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Ben Flanagan

Vague Visages

Feb 10, 2024

“It wouldn’t be surprising to see ‘The Traitor’ filed in the Dad-canon of crime cinema alongside other European films like ‘Mesrine’ or ‘The Baader Meinhof Complex’ — films where the context is too wide to sufficiently cover…”

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Eddie Harrison

film-authority.com

Nov 30, 2023

5/5

...movies like The Traitor are worth tracking down for their fearless adherence to the ideals of morality. This is a deluxe mob movie, done with the kind of wit, intelligence, and scrupulous spirit that make it a must see...

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M.N. Miller

Ready Steady Cut

Aug 27, 2022

4.5/5

Marco Bellocchio’s The Traitor is his latest slice of unconformist Italian cinema whose mafia tale is a brutal knockout. It has such a rare script that goes against everything we know about conventional mob-genre film rules. It’s a cinematic miracle.

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Maria Fernanda Cândido

Cristina

Fabrizio Ferracane

Pippo Calò

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Fausto Russo Alesi

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Synopsis

Tommaso Buscetta becomes the first Mafia informant in the 1980s Sicily.

Director: Marco Bellocchio
Producer: Beppe Caschetto, Fabiano Gullane, Caio Gullane
Screenwriter: Marco Bellocchio, Ludovica Rampoldi, Valia Santella, Francesco Piccolo
Distributor: Sony Pictures Classics
Production Co: Kavac Film, Match Factory Productions, RAI Cinema, IBC Movie, Gullane Entertainment, Ad Vitam Production
Rating: R (Language|Brief Graphic Nudity|Sexual Content|Violence)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Biography
Original Language: Italian
Release Date (Theaters): Jan 31, 2020, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): May 8, 2020
Box Office (Gross USA): $294.8K
Runtime: 2h 25m
Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1

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