Crime · Argentina · 1972 · 2h 0m

The Mafia

La maffia

The Mafia poster
Director
Leopoldo Torre Nilsson
Cast
Alfredo Alcón as Luciano Pennoa Thelma Biral as Ada Donato José Slavin as Francesco Donato China Zorrilla as Assunta Donato Héctor Alterio as Paulie Paolatti José María Gutiérrez as Manolo, El Gallego
Crew
Aníbal Di Salvo — Director of Photography Leopoldo Torre Nilsson — Writer Beatriz Guido — Writer Luis Pico Estrada — Writer Rodolfo Mórtola — Writer Javier Torre — Writer
Synopsis

The business of the Donato family, an Italian-Argentine criminal organization, is a success. They have bought judges, lawyers and even politicians, but after a kidnapping goes wrong, a civil war starts in the Donato crime family. Based on a real event of the Galiffi crime family, a real Italian pro-Fascism mafia that conquered in the 1920's and 1930's the city of Rosario, the Chicago of Latin America.

Mood & Themes
mafiaargentina
Key Collaborators
Leopoldo Torre Nilsson Director Aníbal Di Salvo Director of Photography Leopoldo Torre Nilsson Writer Beatriz Guido Writer Luis Pico Estrada Writer Rodolfo Mórtola Writer Javier Torre Writer
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