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  • 2020
  • R
  • Sony Pictures Classics
  • 2 h 33 m
  • 2020
  • R
  • Sony Pictures Classics
  • 2 h 33 m

Summary In the early 1980’s, an all out war rages between Sicilian mafia bosses over the heroin trade. Tommaso Buscetta, a made man, flees to hide out in Brazil. Back home, scores are being settled and Buscetta watches from afar as his sons and brother are killed in Palermo, knowing he may be next. Arrested and extradited to Italy by the Brazili...

Directed By: Marco Bellocchio

Written By: Valia Santella, Ludovica Rampoldi, Francesco Piccolo, Francesco La Licata, Felipe Sholl, Marco Bellocchio

  • 2020
  • R
  • Sony Pictures Classics
  • 2 h 33 m
  • 2020
  • R
  • Sony Pictures Classics
  • 2 h 33 m

The Traitor

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 22 Critic Reviews
64
User Score Generally Favorable Based on 19 User Ratings
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Summary In the early 1980’s, an all out war rages between Sicilian mafia bosses over the heroin trade. Tommaso Buscetta, a made man, flees to hide out in Brazil. Back home, scores are being settled and Buscetta watches from afar as his sons and brother are killed in Palermo, knowing he may be next. Arrested and extradited to Italy by the Brazili...

Directed By: Marco Bellocchio

Written By: Valia Santella, Ludovica Rampoldi, Francesco Piccolo, Francesco La Licata, Felipe Sholl, Marco Bellocchio

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 22 Critic Reviews
64
50% Positive
11 Reviews
45% Mixed
10 Reviews
5% Negative
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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 22 Critic Reviews
64
50% Positive
11 Reviews
45% Mixed
10 Reviews
5% Negative
1 Review

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90
Jan 29, 2020
Bellocchio’s approach to the story is at once coolly objective — the movie is part biopic, part courtroom procedural — and almost feverishly intense. He has a historian’s analytical detachment, a novelist’s compassion for his characters and a citizen’s outrage at the cruelty and corruption that have festered in his country for so long.
By A.O. Scott FULL REVIEW
75
Feb 19, 2020
The Traitor is a coolly epic appraisal of a country’s struggle with its dark side rather than a mobbed-up melodrama. If it’s “Godfather” clichés you want, there’s always “The Godfather.”
By Ty Burr FULL REVIEW
70
May 24, 2019
Its most valuable asset is actor Pierfrancesco Favino.
By Deborah Young FULL REVIEW
60
Aug 4, 2020
The moral ambiguities and questions of legacy, friendship, family and integrity in Marco Bellochio’s The Traitor are the strongest points of an ambitious, punishing addition to a long line of films to explore the inner workings of the Cosa Nostra.
By Matthew Anderson FULL REVIEW
60
May 24, 2019
The film has the authoritative air of official history: sometimes brash, sometimes stolid, sometimes with flashes of inspiration and sometimes with long stretches of courtroom dialogue.
By Peter Bradshaw FULL REVIEW
50
Feb 6, 2020
The Traitor is an exploration of betrayal, according to Bellocchio. He seems to be asking, can a man truly change the course of his life, or is it just a pretense? Unfortunately, this account of Buscetta’s story doesn’t really give us any answers.
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25
Feb 5, 2020
The biggest betrayal of The Traitor is its crime against the usually compelling Mafia movie genre. This is an offer you can refuse.
By G. Allen Johnson FULL REVIEW

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User Score
Generally Favorable Based on 19 User Ratings
6.8
68% Positive
13 Ratings
26% Mixed
5 Ratings
5% Negative
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Generally Favorable Based on 19 User Ratings
6.8
68% Positive
13 Ratings
26% Mixed
5 Ratings
5% Negative
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Production Company IBC Movie, Rai Cinema, Match Factory Productions, Gullane, Kavac Film, ARTE, Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen (ZDF), Agência Nacional do Cinema (ANCINE), Banco Regional de Desenvolvimento do Extremo Sul, Fundo Setorial do Audiovisual (FSA), Globosat / Telecine, Canal Brasil, Film- und Medienstiftung NRW, L'Aide aux Cinémas du Monde, ARTE, Canal+, Ad Vitam Production
Release Date Jan 31, 2020
Duration 2 h 33 m
Rating R
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Tagline The True Story About The Man Who Brought Down The Mafia
Website http://www.01distribution.it/film/il-traditore
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Awards

David di Donatello Awards
• 6 Wins & 18 Nominations
Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists
• 7 Wins & 11 Nominations
La Pellicola d'Oro
• 5 Wins & 6 Nominations

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