Don Domenico, head of the last great Mafia family, the Clericuzio, moves to Hollywood to begin a new life. His past evil and savagery is to catch up with him. It is also to catch up with successive generations, as his grandchildren struggle to escape the family's dark and menacing past.
Omerta is the Mafia code of silence. His nephew and the head of the New York FBI begin their own investigations into his murder, but the silence spreads like a contagion - the silence of rival gangs, the silence of crooked bankers - even the silence of the courts...
Kino für den Kopf für nur 9, 99 Euro!New York, Ende der 1940er Jahre. Don Vito Corleone, Oberhaupt der mächtigsten New Yorker Mafiafamilie, herrscht über das Netzwerk des New Yorker Untergrunds - dann wird er, weil er es ablehnt, ins Rauschgiftgeschäft einzusteigen, bei einem Attentat schwer verletzt und ein blutiger Bandenkrieg bricht aus, in dem sich Don Vitos Sohn Sonny beweisen muss. Doch der eigentliche Held der Geschichte ist Michael Cor...
Siddet dolu, kati, kirilan ama bükülmeyen bir gelenek.Gerekirse kanla korunan alternatif bir ahlak.Bir jest olarak ölünen ve öldürülen, stilize bir savas.Hatirlanacak ve unutulacak ne cok sey var...Soluk kesici bir roman, soluk kesici bir film.
To Don Raymonde Aprile's children he was a loyal family member, their father's adopted "nephew." To the FBI he was a man who would rather ride his horses than do Mob business. No one knew why Aprile, the last great American Don, had adopted Astorre Viola many years before in Sicily, no one suspected how he had carefully trained him . . . and how, while the Don's children claimed respectable careers in America, Astorre Viola waited for his time...
Il vecchio boss Raymond Aprile è stanco e ha deciso di ritirarsi. Per proteggere i suoi tre figli, impegnati in professioni oneste e rispettabili, e mantenere al contempo il controllo delle sue attività finanziarie, Don Raymond chiama dalla Sicilia il nipote adottivo Salvatore Viola, addestrato in Inghilterra alla scienza bancaria. Ma il ritiro dalle scene dell'acerrimo nemico è l'occasione che il capoclan Tommaso Portella aspettava per scaten...
Mario Puzo was born in New York. He is the author of the bestselling novel The Godfather and many other acclaimed novels. Puzo also wrote many screenplays, including those for the three Godfather movies, for which he won two academy awards. He died at his home in Long Island, New York, at the age of seventy-eight.
Nova Iorque, anos 40. As organizações do crime debruçam-se sobre a
emergência do consumo de drogas e a oportunidade da sua
comercialização. Muitos antevêem na droga uma oportunidade irrecusável
de expandir os lucros de uma forma nunca antes vista. Don Vito
Corleone, o poderoso chefe do clã Corleone, opõe-se, dando origem a uma
guerra sem tréguas entre as Famílias e à luta desesperada pelo controlo
do submundo da Máfia. Brilhantemente escrito e...
Enquanto a implacável Peste Negra assolava a Europa, uma nova cultura
começava a florescer nas cidades e o estudo das grandes civilizações
clássicas iniciava uma época de esplendor para as artes, as letras e as
ciências. Em Roma, a restauração de um único trono papal vaticinava uma
nova etapa de poder e fausto do papado, mas ao mesmo tempo a corrupção
ameaçava a Igreja. Altos mandatários eclesiásticos visitavam os bordéis
e mantinham várias am...
Michael Corleone is returning to the U.S. after the two-year exile to Sicily in which reader left him in The Godfather. But he is ordered to bring with him the young Sicilian bandit, Salvatore Guiliano, who is the unofficial ruler of northwestern Sicily. In his fight "to make Sicilians free people, " the young folk hero, based on the real-life Giuliano of the 1940's, has made both the police and the Mafia his enemies. So when Don Croce Malo, c...