The Traitor
“The true story about the man who brought down the Mafia”
Marco BellocchioCast
Pierfrancesco Favino Maria Fernanda Cândido 
Luigi Lo Cascio
Credits
Written by: Marco Bellocchio
Plot
Tommaso Buscetta, a Sicilian mobster, becomes an informer and helps judge Giovanni Falcone bring down the Cosa Nostra in the Maxi Trial of the 1980s.
Sinekatalog’s take
Marco Bellocchio's mafia drama follows informant Tommaso Buscetta in the Maxi Trial. Pierfrancesco Favino is superb, and the film is a gripping, operatic account of loyalty, betrayal and justice.Sinekatalog’s own editorial review – not a user or critic quote.
Ratings
IMDb: 7.1 / 10 (14,814 votes)
IMDb rating and vote count from the IMDb ratings dataset (October 2026). Scores change over time.
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