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 & 21 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
A Hollywood Masterpiece!!!!
Francis Coppola and Mario Puzo continue their epic saga into the lives of the infamous Corleone family, which is headed by Michael Corleone (Al Pacino). It is a film which does better than its predessor, "The Godfather". The film flip-flops graciously and beautifully between Michael's struggle over the family business and the life of young Vito Corleone (Robert De Niro, in a brilliant, Oscar-winning performance) in his rise to power as well. Robert Duvall, Diane Keaton, Lee Strassberg, and John Cazale give excellent supporting performances. Carmine Coppola's and Nino Rota's score is a masterpiece of music. The movie is expertly filmed and the cinematography is superb.
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- Bill-247
- Dec 6, 1998
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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