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 ...

The 1986 Maxi Trial, in which 475 members of the Sicilian Mafia, known as Cosa Nostra, were indicted for their crimes, is an event absolutely ripe for cinematic adaptation. Held in a bunker of a ...

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 ...

Mark Franchetti and Andrew Meier's documentary 'Our Godfather' recounts the story of Tommaso Buscetta, the Mafia turncoat whose testimony led to more than 400 convictions. By Frank Scheck The story of ...

Based on the life of Tommaso Buscetta, the Italian mafioso-turned-informant whose testimony in high-profile trials in the 1980s and 1990s helped shed light on the inner workings of La Cosa Nostra and ...

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 ...