In six
episodes of 90 minutes each the story is told of the Corleone clan and their
rise to the top of the Sicilian mafia . It focuses expecially on Totò Riina and
how he managed to become Capo dei Capi,
boss of the bosses.
The story
begins in 1943. Totò Riina and this friends are very poor and they live in
Corleone. The boss of the village is doctor Michele Navarra, who belongs to the
mafia. It is his godson Luciano Liggio who sees how the boys can be useful and
he often hires them to do certain jobs for him. Finally Liggio murders Navarra
and from that moment Liggion runs the show. They want to expand to Palermo and
they need to find a way into the organization. The mafia families of Palermo do
not take the peasants from Corleone serious in the beginning.
Liggio
becomes older and is more preoccupied with the good life and from that moment
it is Totò Riina who calls the shots. He stops at nothing to play the families
against each other to his own advantage and even orders the murders of
anti-mafia judges Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino.
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| Claudio Gioe as Totò Riina |
Biagio
Schiro is another boy from Corleone, only he took another path. He joined the
police and in the fifty years that follow he constantly tries to capture the
Mafiosi.
Almost
everything is based on true events. Only the character of Biagio Schiro is
invented, he was made out of all the brave policemen who fought against the
mafia. In this series it makes sure you have a good balance. The lives of Totò
Riina and Biagio Schiro are parallel in so many ways, but so different at the
same time.
The problem
I have with the mafia films and series like the Godfather or the Soprano’s,
(good as they might be), is that your sympathy lies with the bad guys. In this
series there is no sympathy at all for the bad guys. It mainly shows how
ruthless the mafia was and is and how much influence it has.
A scene that makes a lot of impact is when Biagio and his boss are in his kitchen and they drink to all their friends who died. The list of names is long, but we, the viewers know the murders of Falcone and Borsellino are still to come.
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| Daniele Liotto as Biagio Schiro and behind him his boss, Boris Guiliano played by Pietro de Silva |
Corleone, il capo dei capi is an amazing series. It glues you
to your seat with its storylines and acting. Claudio Gioe plays Totò Riina and captures his ability to do the
most terrible things, but not like a raging lunatic but almost like a
reasonable person. Daniele Liotti plays
Biagio Sciro and he is also amazing. He will make you love Biagio.
Other good roles are Pietro de Silva as Boris Guilliano, Andrea Tidona as Giovanni Falcone and Gaetano Aronica as Paolo Borsellino.
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