New York Film Festival Press Conference for:

MAFIOSO
Series: The 44th New York Film Festival [Sept 29 - Oct 15 2006]
Director: Alberto Lattuada, Country: Italy, Release: 1962, Runtime: 99

A long-lost comic classic from the Golden Age of Italian cinema, lovingly restored to its original glory. The incomparable Alberto Sordi gives one of his finest performances as Antonio Badalamenti, a punctilious factory supervisor in Northern Italy who takes his blonde wife (Norma Bengell) and their two adorable children to meet his family in Sicily. As vast meals are consumed and suspicious looks exchanged, Antonio sinks back into the rhythms and customs familiar from childhood. But then local bigwig Don Vincenzo (Ugo Attanasio) and his “people