:: DETAILS

Reg./Dir:: Francis Ford Coppola CAST Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, James Caan, Robert Duvall, Diane Keaton, Talia Shire, Andy Garcia PARAMOUNT

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The Godfather is a 1972 crime film based on the 1969 novel of the same name by Mario Puzo and directed by Francis Ford Coppola, with a screenplay by Puzo, Coppola, and an uncredited Robert Towne.[1] It stars Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, James Caan, Robert Duvall and Diane Keaton, and features Richard Castellano, Abe Vigoda and Sterling Hayden. The story spans ten years from 1945 to 1955 and chronicles the Corleone crime family.

:: BIOGRAPHY

Francis Ford Coppola (born April 7, 1939) is a five-time Academy Award-winning American film director, producer, and screenwriter. Coppola is also a vintner, magazine publisher, and hotelier. He is a graduate of Hofstra University where he studied theatre. He earned an M.F.A. in film directing from the UCLA Film School. He is most renowned for directing the highly regarded Godfather trilogy, The Conversation, and the Vietnam War epic Apocalypse Now.

:: FILMOGRAPHY

Cortometraggi e mediometraggi Aymonn the Terrible (1960) The Peeper, the Wide Open Spaces (1960) The Belt Girls and the Playboy (1962) Rip Van Winkle (1985) Captain Eo (1986) Lungometraggi Tonight for Sure (1962) Terrore alla tredicesima ora (Dementia 13) (1963) Buttati Bernardo! (You're a Big Boy Now) (1967) Sulle ali dell'arcobaleno (Finian's Rainbow) (1968) Non torno a casa stasera (The Rain People) (1969) Il Padrino (The Godfather) (1972) La conversazione (The Conversation) (1974) Il Padrino: Parte II (The Godfather: Part II) (1974) Mario Puzo's The Godfather: the Complete Novel for Television Apocalypse Now (Apocalypse Now) (1979) Un sogno lungo un giorno - (One from the Heart) (1982) I ragazzi della 56ª strada (The Outsiders) (1983) Rusty il selvaggio (Rumble Fish) (1983) Cotton Club (The Cotton Club) (1984) Peggy Sue si è sposata (Peggy Sue Got Married) (1986) I giardini di pietra (Gardens of Stone) (1987) Tucker, Un uomo e il suo sogno (Tucker, the Man and His Dream) (1988) La vita senza Zoe (Life without Zoe), episodio di New York Stories (New York Stories) (1989) Il Padrino: Parte III (The Godfather: Part III) (1990) Dracula di Bram Stoker (Bram Stoker's Dracula) (1992) Jack (Jack) (1996) L'uomo della pioggia (The Rainmaker) (1997) Apocalypse Now Redux (Apocalypse Now Redux) (2001) Un'altra giovinezza (Youth Without Youth) (2007) Tetro (2009), pre-produzione