The early life and career of Vito Corleone in 1920s New York City is portrayed, while his son, Michael, expands and tightens his grip on the family crime syndicate.The early life and career of Vito Corleone in 1920s New York City is portrayed, while his son, Michael, expands and tightens his grip on the family crime syndicate.The early life and career of Vito Corleone in 1920s New York City is portrayed, while his son, Michael, expands and tightens his grip on the family crime syndicate.
- Won 6 Oscars
- 17 wins & 22 nominations total
Robert De Niro
- Vito Corleone
- (as Robert DeNiro)
Gastone Moschin
- Fanucci
- (as Gaston Moschin)
Bruno Kirby
- Young Clemenza
- (as B. Kirby Jr.)
Francesca De Sapio
- Young Mama Corleone
- (as Francesca de Sapio)
Marianna Hill
- Deanna Corleone
- (as Mariana Hill)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaRobert De Niro spent four months learning to speak the Sicilian dialect of Italian in order to play Vito Corleone. Nearly all of the dialogue that his character speaks in the film was in Sicilian.
- GoofsDuring Roth's birthday party, the pattern on his shirt changes. Due to weather difficulties, the two minute scene took over a week to shoot and the original shirt was lost at some point. The production designer attempted to recreate it by drawing an approximation of the pattern onto a plain shirt, but it didn't quite match.
- Quotes
Michael Corleone: My father taught me many things here - he taught me in this room. He taught me: keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.
- Crazy creditsAs with the first film, no opening credits are shown. Although it is now commonplace for films not to have opening credits, it was considered innovative in 1974.
- Alternate versionsIn the German theatrical version, all Italian dialogs from the young Vito Corleone's scenes were dubbed into German, as well as the English and Spanish dialogs from Michael Corleone's scenes. The original Italian language for this footage has been only restored for the movie's DVD release in 2002.
- ConnectionsEdited into The Godfather Saga (1977)
Featured review
One of the greatest films ever made.
To say that this film is a sequel is a sin.
Al Pacino and Robert de Niro win the Oscar for this film, Robert de Niro's performance as Vito Corleone is perfect, every scene in which this one is perfect. Al Pacino as always perfect and unlike the first film, he is much better.
PROS:
EVERYTHING. The script, the direction, the cast, the performance, everything in this film is perfect and its 3 hours are worth it.
CONS:
NOTHING. This movie is perfect.
PROS:
EVERYTHING. The script, the direction, the cast, the performance, everything in this film is perfect and its 3 hours are worth it.
CONS:
NOTHING. This movie is perfect.
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- AgustinCesaratti
- Oct 6, 2019
Details
- Release date
- Country of origin
- Official sites
- Languages
- Also known as
- Mario Puzo's the Godfather Part II
- Filming locations
- Kaiser Estate, 4000 W Lake Blvd, Homewood, Lake Tahoe, California, USA(Corleone Compound)
- Production companies
- See more company credits at IMDbPro
Box office
- Budget
- $13,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $47,834,595
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $171,417
- Nov 10, 2019
- Gross worldwide
- $47,961,919
- Runtime3 hours 22 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
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