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Mafioso: The Criterion Collection

DVD/APPROX. 102 MINS./1962/US NR

Main feature:

Release Mar 18, 2008
Video Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audio Italian: Dolby Digital 1.0
Subtitles English
Studio Criterion/Voyager
Year 1962
Genre Comedy

Special features:

  • - New, restored high-definition digital transfer
  • - Ritratti d'autore, a 1996 interview with director Alberto Lattuada by filmmaker Daniele Luchetti
  • - New video interviews with the director's life, actress Carla Del Poggio (Variety Lights), and son, Alessandro Lattuada
  • - Trailers for the original Italian release and the 2007 U.S. rerelease
  • - Gallery of promotional caricatures by artist Keiro Kimura
  • - New and improved English subtitle translation
  • - PLUS: New essays by Phillip Lopate and Roberto Chiesi and a 1982 interview with Alberto Lattuada

Synopsis:

In Alberto Lattuada's brilliant dark comedy Mafioso, auto-factory foreman Nino (Alberto Sordi) takes his proper, modern wife (Norma Bengell) and two blonde daughters from industrial Milan to antiquated rural Sicily to visit his family and get back in touch with his roots. But Antonio gets more than he bargained for when he discovers some harsh truths about his ancestors - and himself. The first Italian film to dramatize the modern mafia, Lattuada's devastatingly funny character study is equal parts culture-clash farce and existential nightmare.

Cast and Crew:

Criterion/Voyager presents
Alberto SordiNorma BengellGabriella ContiUgo Attanasio"Mafioso: The Criterion Collection"
Written byMarco FerreriWritten byRafael AzconaWritten byAgenore IncrocciWritten byFurio Scarpelliproduced byAntonio Cervi
produced byDino De Laurentiis
directed by Alberto Lattuada
Production Year: 1962

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