Mafioso (1962)

Directed by

Alberto Lattuada

Genre

drama film, comedy film

Country

Italy

Runtime

1h 38m

Rated

NR

Rating

7.6 of 10 from 63 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A factory manager from northern Italy returns to his Sicilian hometown for a visit. There he gets drawn into a Mafia obligation that forces him to carry out a murder.

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What happens

Mafioso is a 1962 Italian Mafia black comedy film directed by Alberto Lattuada. The film stars Alberto Sordi as a factory manager who visits his hometown in Sicily and is tasked with performing a hit for the Mafia. It was awarded Best Film at the San Sebastian Film Festival. In 2008, the film was included on the Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage’s 100 Italian films to be saved, a list of 100 films that "have changed the collective memory of the country between 1942 and 1978." (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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