HOLLYWOOD SUMMER NIGHTS
Widely regarded as one of the greatest films of all time, The Godfather won three Academy Awards, was a huge success at the box office, and influenced a half-century of filmmaking. Director Francis Ford Coppola’s magnum opus, which he co-scripted with Mario Puzo based on his novel, is at once a richly textured period gangster film and a cinematic tragedy of Shakespearean succession. The intergenerational Corleone crime family, from Don Vito (Marlon Brando) to Michael (Al Pacino), spin their powerful friends, enemies, and a few unlucky relatives, through a breathtaking cycle of violence, vengeance and American myth-making.
“The Godfather is the most memorable, most influential, most quoted, most beloved, most discussed, most imitated, most revered and most entertaining American movie ever made.” — Richard Roeper, The Chicago-Sun Times
“Francis Ford Coppola’s first film in the series is still an epic, full of hypnotic acting, which reinvented mafia criminals as players in a dynastic psychodrama.” — Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian
directed by
Francis Ford Coppola
Francis Ford Coppola
written by
Mario Puzo, Francis Ford Coppola
Mario Puzo, Francis Ford Coppola
with
Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, James Caan
Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, James Caan
language
English, Italian, Latin
English, Italian, Latin
country
United States
United States