Mafioso: Criterion Edition

Director: Alberto Lattuada

Cast: Alberto Sordi, Norma Bengell, Gabriella Conti, Ugo Attanasio, Carmelo Oliviero

(1962) Rated: Unrated

US DVD release date: 18 March 2008 (Criterion)

[25 March 2008]

by Kate Williams

Drawing on the timeless and well-worn cultural chasm between Italy’s great and "sophisticated" North and its interminably provincial and "backwards" South, Lattuada takes full advantage of the dark humor and cruel realities that can be extracted from such prejudices.

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