Totò Riina

Actor

November 16, 1930 (87 years)

† November 17, 2017

Corleone - Sicily - Italy

Biography

Salvatore “Totò” Riina, called “Totò 'u Curtu” (Sicilian for “Totò the Short,” Totò being the diminutive of Salvatore), was an Italian mobster and chief of the Sicilian Mafia, known for a ruthless murder campaign that reached a peak in the early 1990s with the assassinations of Antimafia Commission prosecutors Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino, resulting in widespread public outcry and a major crackdown by the authorities.

Filmography

6.3

Panorama

Current affairs programme, featuring interviews and investigative reports on a wide variety of subjects.

6.6

Our Godfather

Self - Mafioso (archive footage)

The story of how Sicilian Mafia boss Tommaso Buscetta (1928-2000), the Godfather of Two Worlds, revealed, starting in 1984, the deepest secrets of the organization, thus helping to convict the hundreds of mafiosi who were tried in the trial held in Palermo between 1986 and 1987.

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Corleone: A History of la Cosa Nostra

Self - Mafioso (archive footage)

How, from 1974 to 1993, Totò Riina (1930-2017), supreme boss of the Corleone family, ruled by blood and terror over the Sicilian Mafia. An implacable account, based on the testimony of his men and those who fought against them.

7.3

Shooting the Mafia

Self - Mafioso (archive footage)

Sicilian photojournalist Letizia Battaglia began a long battle against the ruthless Cosa Nostra when she first photographed the sinister scene of a brutal murder. Documenting the barbaric rule of the Italian Mafia, she was an unwavering witness to its crimes. Her art and courage helped end the horrific and bloody reign of the Corleonesi clan.

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Speciale Atlantide: Andrea Purgatori, Borsellino e le stragi

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