Mafioso (1962)
This is the face of a MAFIOSO...sometimes smiling, sometimes savage. Here is the story of a man who returns to his native Sicily for a holiday and finds himself again bound to the silent laws of "The Honored Society."
Genre : Crime, Drama, Comedy
Runtime : 1H 45M
Director : Alberto Lattuada
Writer : Marco Ferreri, Rafael Azcona, Agenore Incrocci, Furio Scarpelli
Synopsis
When a good-natured factory supervisor living in Milan with his Northern wife returns to his native Sicily, a decades' old oath forces him to fulfill a nightmarish obligation.
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