Leeds Film Presents: The Traitor

17 Dec 2020 - 31 Jan 2021

Online Event

partnering with two of our favourite independent UK distributors, Modern Films & Day for Night, for a series of new selections.

The Traitor is a gripping, real life mafia drama based on the true story of Tommaso Buscetta, the first Sicilian mobster to turn informer. Veteran Italian director Marco Bellocchio builds the drama around a series of extraordinary courtroom scenes, closely based on actual footage with baying, caged mobsters ridiculing turncoat Buscetta’s testimony from the back of the hall (see Shooting the Mafia). Flashbacks reveal the backstory of mafia wars over heroin turf in the early 80s as scores are settled and Buscetta’s family is targeted. The trial marks the beginning of the end of the Cosa Nostra’s reign of terror.

15 / 2019
Drama, Thriller • 2h 35m
Cast - Pierfrancesco Favino, Luigi Lo Cascio, Fausto Russo Alesi, Maria Fernanda Cândido
Director - Marco Bellocchio
Language - Italian

With Leeds cinemas closed at present, we're bringing you a selection featuring some of the best new international cinema and LIFF audience favourites for you to enjoy over Christmas and into the New Year on Leeds Film Player. There are twelve features now available, including three vibrant and original coming-of-age stories by rising directors.

During this period of social distancing and lockdown due to Coronavirus we advise that you check directly with the organiser of this event that it is going ahead as publicised.