The rise of the godfather

Movie
German title	The rise of the godfather
Original title	Corleone
Country of production	Italy
original language	Italian
Publishing year	1978
length	92 minutes
Age rating	FSK 16
Rod
Director	Pasquale Squitieri
script	Orazio Barrese , Dino Maiuri , Massimo De Rita Pasquale Squitieri
production	Mario Cecchi Gori
music	Ennio Morricone
camera	Eugenio Bentivoglio
cut	Mauro Bonanni
occupation
Giuliano Gemma : Vito Gargano Claudia Cardinale : Rosa Accordino Francisco Rabal : Don Giusto Provenzano Stefano Satta Flores : Abogado Natale Calia Michele Placido : Michele Labruzzo Salvatore Billa : Carmelo Remo Girone : Biagio Lo Cascio Tony Kendall : Salvatore Sperlazzo Enrico Maisto : Matteo Agueci Tommaso Palladino : Vito's murderer

The Rise of the Godfather (Original title: Corleone ) is a detective film by Pasquale Squitieri from 1978 with Giuliano Gemma and Claudia Cardinale in the leading roles. The film premiered on video in Germany.

action

The action takes place in Italy in the 1950s . Vito Gargano and Michele Labruzzo were born in Sicily and are poor. They have been friends since childhood, but they part ways as adults. While the idealist Michele campaigns for the farm workers who are exploited by the Mafia , Vito Gargano, who is consumptive, is obsessed with the sick desire to get out of dirt and poverty. That makes him very dangerous. However, they still have a friendly relationship.

When the boss of the Mafia in Palermo , Don Giusto, who had accidentally recognized his willingness to be unscrupulous, recruits him to kill his friend because he had become dangerous for them, he decides to kill Michele in order to rise to their position. In this way he gains power and wealth through them, but that is not enough for him. Therefore, with the help of allies, he later intrigues and kills Don Giusto and his closest collaborators in order to take his place, which he succeeds. Through this position he also gains influence in politics. In addition, he marries Rosa, with whom he is in love and who does not fully know what he is doing, and through her they have a son.

After all, he wants to get into the drug business and kidnaps board members in order to get ransom money through them, which he can then use for it. But in doing so he creates many enemies who then attack him. In addition, the judiciary systematically begins to investigate him for his crimes, including the murder of Michele. When his friends and allies realize that the judiciary has enough evidence to imprison him, they eventually turn away from him and murder him for fear he might betray them to the judiciary for the purpose of mitigating sentences , just as he did Michele for his own benefit betrayed what they had realized in the meantime. His death leaves Rosa in a desperate state and traumatizes his son.

criticism

"An above-average Mafia film in the tradition of the Italian examples of the genre, which largely dispenses with spectacular scenes of violence."

- Film service

Awards

• Giuliano Gemma won the Montreal World Film Festival (1979) the award for his performance as well as the Golden Goblet (1979).

Web links

• The rise of the sponsors in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• The Rise of the Godfather in the Online Film Database
• The rise of godparents at Rotten Tomatoes (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The Rise of the Godfather Film Service . Retrieved March 3, 2018.