The Traitor(Movie, 2019)

Name: The Traitor
Genre: Drama, Crime, Thriller
Released: 2019
Duration: T02:31:00
Rating: 3.9

Original title: "Il traditore" (Italian/IT)

| 2h 31min | Genres: Drama, Crime, Thriller

Rating: 3.9/5 (with 597 votes)

The Traitor (Italian: Il traditore) is a 2019 internationally co-produced biographical crime drama film co-written and directed by Marco Bellocchio, about the life of Tommaso Buscetta, the first Sicilian Mafia boss who was treated by some as pentito. Pierfrancesco Favino stars as Buscetta, alongside Maria Fernanda Cândido, Fabrizio Ferracane, Fausto Russo Alesi and Luigi Lo Cascio. The Traitor premiered in competition at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival, and was released theatrically in 23 May by 01 Distribution, and on 30 October in France by Ad Vitam Distribution. It received positive reviews from critics and auditory. Although selected as the Italian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 92nd Academy Awards, it was not nominated. ()

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Awards & Nominations for The Traitor

David di Donatello for Best Film David di Donatello for Best Director David di Donatello for Best Actor David di Donatello for Best Supporting Actor David di Donatello for Best Editing David Di Donatello for Best Original Script nominated for: European Film Award for Best Actor nominated for: European Film Award for Best Director nominated for: European Film Award for Best Film nominated for: European Film Award for Best Screenwriter nominated for: David di Donatello for Best Director nominated for: International Submission To The Academy Awards

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. But when, after living several misfortunes, he is forced to return to Italy, he makes a bold decision that will change his life and the destiny of Cosa Nostra forever.

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Trailer for The Traitor + Featurettes/Teaser/Clips

Trailer(Trailer, 2:14)

Trailer (Trailer) | Teaser Trailer de Il traditore — The Traitor (HD) (Teaser) | Trailer ufficiale (Trailer, IT) | IL TRADITORE di Marco Bellocchio (2019) - In concorso al Festival di Cannes | CLIP (Clip, IT) | Pierfrancesco Favino e Marco Bellocchio (Featurette, IT)

Additional Information

Official websites:

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Production countries: Brazil, Germany, France, Italy

Plays in: Brazil, São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Palermo, Rome

Made by: Canal Plus, IBC Movie, Ad Vitam Production, Arte, Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen (ZDF), RAI, Arte Deutschland TV GmbH, Match Factory, The, Telecine, Canal Brasil, Gullane Filmes, Kavac Films

Original language: Italian (IT)

Spoken languages: English (EN), Italian (IT), Portuguese (PT)

Translated into 25 languages: Bulgarian (BG), Czech (CS), German (DE), Greek (EL), English (EN), Spanish (ES), French (FR), Hebrew (HE), Hungarian (HU), Italian (IT), Japanese (JA), Korean (KO), Lithuanian (LT), Latvian (LV), Dutch (NL), Polish (PL), Portuguese (PT), Romanian (RO), Russian (RU), Slovak (SK), Serbian (SR), Swedish (SV), Turkish (TR), Ukrainian (UK), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)

Status: Released

Release date US: 01/31/2020 (World premiere: 05/23/2019)

Cast: Pierfrancesco Favino, Maria Fernanda Cândido, Luigi Lo Cascio, Fabrizio Ferracane, Giovanni Calcagno, Bebo Storti, Elia Schilton, Alessio Praticò

Director: Marco Bellocchio

Producer: Giuseppe Caschetto, Simone Gattoni

Screenwriter: Marco Bellocchio, Valia Santella, Ludovica Rampoldi, Francesco Piccolo

Film Editor: Francesca Calvelli

Director of Photography: Vladan Radovic

Composer: Nicola Piovani

Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):

"Der Verräter"

"El traidor"

"シチリアーノ裏切りの美学"

Keywords: based on true story, palermo, sicily, anti-mafia, mafia trial, 1990s, mafia war, cosa nostra, pentito, italian history, rome, italy, sicilian mafia, 2000s, trial witness, omertá, 1980s

Revenue: 5,329,455 USD

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