The Traitor

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The Traitor

R

2020

2h 25m

Crime

Drama

Biography

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Tommaso Buscetta becomes the first Mafia informant in the 1980s Sicily.

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Critics Consensus

While it doesn't probe particularly far below the surface of its central character, The Traitor tells its fact-based story with enough energy to entertain.

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Tim Robey

Daily Telegraph (UK)

Nov 22, 2020

4/5

Favino, a familiar face internationally as a lumpen heavy, gives a galvanising career-best performance...

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Donald Clarke

Irish Times

Aug 14, 2020

3/5

The Traitor has all the trappings of an indecently immoral entertainment. Yet it has turned out be oddly flattened.

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Kevin Maher

The Times (UK)

Jul 24, 2020

4/5

A complex character study emerges, one that is inherently unflattering (Buscetta is a ruthless killer), in a restlessly intelligent film.

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Ben Flanagan

Vague Visages

Feb 10, 2024

“It wouldn’t be surprising to see ‘The Traitor’ filed in the Dad-canon of crime cinema alongside other European films like ‘Mesrine’ or ‘The Baader Meinhof Complex’ — films where the context is too wide to sufficiently cover…”

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Eddie Harrison

film-authority.com

Nov 30, 2023

5/5

...movies like The Traitor are worth tracking down for their fearless adherence to the ideals of morality. This is a deluxe mob movie, done with the kind of wit, intelligence, and scrupulous spirit that make it a must see...

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M.N. Miller

Ready Steady Cut

Aug 27, 2022

4.5/5

Marco Bellocchio’s The Traitor is his latest slice of unconformist Italian cinema whose mafia tale is a brutal knockout. It has such a rare script that goes against everything we know about conventional mob-genre film rules. It’s a cinematic miracle.

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CANDY G

@RT20245598 Nov 8, 2025

CIRIE IS THE MIST DESPARATE 65 YEAR OLD , NOT AN OPERATING ROOM RN AS SHE STATED!! I HAVE EVER SEEN. IM AN CRNA ,USED TO BE AN RN OF OR AND ICU. ALWAYS MADE OVER $300,000 SO WHY WOULD SHE SELL HER INTEGRITY FOR A $250,000. THEN FAKE CRY TO ANDIE , WHOM NEEDED THE MONEY FOR NEW BABY. CIRIE YOUR PITIFUL. THIS SHOW IS NOT WORTH WATCHING. IT MAKES CIRIE LOOK DESPERATE!! I REALLY APPRECIATED HOW ARIE , COULDNT SELL HIS INTEGRITY, SO HE ADMITTED IT. CIRIE AHOULD TAKE SOME LESSONS IN REPECT FOR SELF OVER MONEY FIRST!!. DONT WATCH. SHE HAS A MONO TONE BORING CHARACTER!!!

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Alec B

@Alec97 Jan 10, 2024

A legal drama that is more compelling than I anticipated. The reason is that the movie never really allows for a moment of triumph for Buscetta or the legal system intent on bringing the Mafia down. There are only small victories surrounded by violence and bitter disappointments.

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Tony S

@RT94004908 Oct 28, 2021

A footnote in history of Cosa Nostra. It skillfully presents a complex character of a turncoat, who is facing both his mortality and tries to justify to himself and other, that his traitory isn't a fault of his own. Great reenactments of trial scenes, that were turned into a grotesques circus. With authentic Italian hand gesturing all around. However, the acting sometimes slips into borderline comedy and chaff. The extensive hallucination scenes and metaphorical allusions to themes are really blunt and movie really hammers them in, leaving really few ones for interpretation.

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Mar 10, 2021

A good biopic on Buscetta's life, great acting by Pierfrancesco Favino. (Tommaso Buscetta) Might be better to do some research on the Sicilian Mafia, before watching this movie. A fantastic movie nonetheless.

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Feb 1, 2021

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Jan 26, 2021

A legal drama that is more compelling than I anticipated. The reason is that the movie never really allows for a moment of triumph for Buscetta or the legal system intent on bringing the Mafia down. There are only small victories surrounded by violence and bitter disappointments.

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Synopsis

Tommaso Buscetta becomes the first Mafia informant in the 1980s Sicily.

Director: Marco Bellocchio
Producer: Beppe Caschetto, Fabiano Gullane, Caio Gullane
Screenwriter: Marco Bellocchio, Ludovica Rampoldi, Valia Santella, Francesco Piccolo
Distributor: Sony Pictures Classics
Production Co: Kavac Film, Match Factory Productions, RAI Cinema, IBC Movie, Gullane Entertainment, Ad Vitam Production
Rating: R (Language|Brief Graphic Nudity|Sexual Content|Violence)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Biography
Original Language: Italian
Release Date (Theaters): Jan 31, 2020, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): May 8, 2020
Box Office (Gross USA): $294.8K
Runtime: 2h 25m
Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1

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