Buscetta lived a quiet, mostly anonymous life for his remaining years, dying of cancer at age 71 in 2000. The tight security was certainly necessary, given that 11 of Buscetta’s relatives, including his two sons and other family members who had nothing to do with organized crime were brutally murdered or disappeared. He entered the Witness Protection Program, living with his family in such places as suburban New Jersey and southern Florida. When Buscetta became a key witness in numerous trials in Italy and the United States, his testimony resulted in the conviction of more than 400 mafioso in both countries. (Buscetta’s story is also being dramatized in Marco Bellocchio’s upcoming film The Traitor, which premieres in Cannes). And as the films with a title similar to this one demonstrated several decades ago, those numbers are legion. Relating the tale of Buscetta, the highest-ranking Mafia figure ever to break the code of silence known as omertà, with the gripping tension and fast pacing of a first-rate thriller, Our Godfather will prove fascinating for anyone interested in the milieu. The story of Mafia turncoat Tommaso Buscetta is compellingly told in a documentary by Mark Franchetti and Andrew Meier that recently received its world premiere at Toronto’s Hot Docs festival.
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