In the clan photo, Tommaso Buscetta does not appear in the foreground or the background. Here is a loyal henchman, attached to the “values” of the old days when the Sicilian Mafia prided itself on a code of honor.
But times change, and in the 1980s, the brutality of godfather Toto’ Riina prompts Buscetta to lay low.
Arrested in Brazil, the man becomes one of the first repentant mafiosi collaborating with the Italian justice system.
It took all the classic elegance of Marco Bellocchio to transform this long judicial chronicle into a gripping fresco.
His “traitor” is portrayed with strength and accuracy by Pierfrancesco Savino, and the film offers us great scenes, including those of the “Maxi-Trial” in Palermo, or the poignant face-offs of the repentant with Judge Falcone, assassinated in 1992.
A surprisingly intimate dive into the arms of the “octopus.”
