Mark Franchetti and Andrew Meier were about to give up on their quest to tell the story of a soldier in the Sicilian Mafia who famously broke the code of silence when they discovered an important ...

TORONTO — The original gangster-turncoat, Sicilian-born mob boss Tommaso Buscetta was the star witness in the biggest anti-Mafia trials in both Italy and the U.S. His detailed testimony about the ...

Available: Streaming through the North Park Theater, here. This latest entry in Mafia-inspired cinema (“we’re not the Mafia, we’re “La Cosa Nostra,” says the main character) is a more nuanced ...

Italian auteur and Cannes veteran Marco Bellocchio, whose melodrama “Sweet Dreams” screened in Directors’ Fortnight, will make a high-profile film about Tommaso Buscetta, the first high-ranking ...

“Just when I thought I was out… they pull me back in!” Those words, emphatically spoken by Al Pacino, may be the only thing most folks remember from “The Godfather, Part III.” And they echo a theme ...

Marco Bellocchio’s political drama 'The Traitor' revisits Italy’s big mafia trials through the angry eyes of Pierfrancesco Favino’s Tommaso Buscetta, a man of honor turned state’s evidence. By Deborah ...

His testimony was a pivotal moment in history. Who is Tommaso Buscetta? The new documentary, Our Godfather, focuses on Buscetta, a top-level Mafia boss, who was the first of his title to testify ...

The family of Tommaso Buscetta, whose testimony figured in hundreds of Mafia convictions, agreed to appear in a new documentary. By Charles V. Bagli In 2015, Roberto Buscetta had been hiding for ...

Italian auteur and Cannes veteran Marco Bellocchio, whose melodrama “Sweet Dreams” screened in Directors’ Fortnight, will make a high-profile film about Tommaso Buscetta, the first high-ranking ...