The Traitor

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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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Movie Info

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

Cast & Crew

Pierfrancesco Favino
Tommaso Buscetta
Luigi Lo Cascio
Totuccio Contorno
Maria Fernanda Cândido
Cristina
Alessio Praticò
Scarpuzzedda
Fabrizio Ferracane
Pippo Calò
Jacopo Garfagnoli
Giulio
Massimiliano Ubaldi
Giovanni Brusca
Fausto Russo Alesi
Giovanni Falcone
Gabriele Cicirello
Benedetto Buscetta
Goffredo Maria Bruno
Stefano Bontade
Marco Bellocchio
Director
Marco Bellocchio
Screenwriter
Valia Santella
Screenwriter
Ludovica Rampoldi
Screenwriter
Francesco Piccolo
Screenwriter
Beppe Caschetto
Producer
Fabiano Gullane
Producer
Caio Gullane
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All Critics (102) | Top Critics (30) | Fresh (86) | Rotten (16)

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

    November 22, 2020 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…

    Tim Robey

    Daily Telegraph (UK)

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

    August 14, 2020 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…

    Donald Clarke

    Irish Times

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

    July 24, 2020 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…

    Kevin Maher

    Times (UK)

  • A brooding, two-inch-thick porterhouse steak of a movie.

    July 23, 2020 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…

    Danny Leigh

    Financial Times

  • Carried by Pierfrancesco Favino's layered central performance.

    July 22, 2020 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…

    David Jenkins

    Little White Lies

  • There's a sharper film lurking somewhere insider... But those wanting a more detailed exploration of organized crime in Italy - and the mental trauma it inflicted on soldiers and civilians alike - would do well to make time for Bellocchio's latest.

    March 12, 2020 | Rating: 3.5/5 | Full Review…

    Matthew Monagle

    Austin Chronicle
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