{"id":595,"date":"2008-12-03T13:43:28","date_gmt":"2008-12-03T13:43:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/europeanfilmreview.co.uk\/blog\/?p=595"},"modified":"2008-12-03T13:44:04","modified_gmt":"2008-12-03T13:44:04","slug":"mafioso","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/latest-news\/mafioso\/","title":{"rendered":"Mafioso"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/europeanfilmreview.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/themes\/mimbo2.2\/images\/mafioso.jpg\" onclick=\"javascript:_gaq.push(['_trackEvent','outbound-article','http:\/\/europeanfilmreview.co.uk']);\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-597\" style=\"border: 1px solid black; float: right; margin: 5px; padding: 1px\" title=\"mafioso\" src=\"http:\/\/europeanfilmreview.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/themes\/mimbo2.2\/images\/mafioso.jpg\" alt=\"Mafioso poster\" width=\"232\" height=\"325\" \/><\/a>Italy<br \/>\nAn Antonio Cervi production for Compagnia Cinematografica Cervi production.<br \/>\nDirector: Alberto Lattuada<br \/>\nStory: Bruno Caruso<br \/>\nScreenplay: Rafael Azcona, Marco Ferreri, Agenore Incrocci, Furio Scarpelli<br \/>\nCinematography: Armando Nannuzzi<br \/>\nMusic: Piero Piccioni<br \/>\nEditor: Nino Baragli<br \/>\nArt director: Carlo Egidi<br \/>\nItalian release date: 25\/10\/1962<br \/>\nOriginal running time: 105 mins<br \/>\nInternational release details: Usa: Mafioso (1962 &#8211; 105&#8242;)<br \/>\nCast: Alberto Sordi (<em>Antonio Badalamenti<\/em>), Norma Bengell (<em>Marta<\/em>), Gabriella Conti (<em>Rosalia<\/em>), Ugo Attanasio (<em>Don Vincenzo<\/em>), Cinzia Bruno (<em>Donatella<\/em>), Katiusca Piretti (<em>Patrizia<\/em>), Armando Tine (<em>Dr. Zanchi<\/em>), Lilly Bistrattin (<em>Dr. Zanchi&#8217;s Secretary<\/em>), Mich\u00e8le Bailly (<em>Young Baroness<\/em>), Francesco Lo Briglio (<em>Don Calogero<\/em>), Carmelo Oliviero (<em>Don Liborio<\/em>), Stefano Benigno, Paolo Cuccia, Hugh Hurd, Vincenzo Norvese, Giuseppe Stagnitti, John Topa, Saverio Turiello<\/p>\n<p>Plot: In Alberto Lattuada\u2019s brilliant dark comedy <strong>Mafioso<\/strong>, 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\u2014and himself. One of the first Italian films to look frankly at the Mafia, Lattuada\u2019s devastatingly funny character study is equal parts culture-clash farce and existential nightmare. (Criterion website)<\/p>\n<p>Notes: This one has been released in the US as part of the Criterion collection.  More of a comedy drama than a crime film, but with its Sicilian settings and rural crime theme, it&#8217;s also a precursor to the likes of Petri&#8217;s <strong>We Still Kill the Old Way<\/strong> and Damiani&#8217;s <strong>Mafia<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Auto-factory foreman Nino (Alberto Sordi) takes his wife (Norma Bengell) and two blonde daughters from industrial Milan to antiquated, rural Sicily&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[387,509],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}