Il Camorrista

Il camorrista (English: The Professor) is a 1986 Italian drama directed by Giuseppe Tornatore. His film debut, it is based on a Giuseppe Marrazzo novel. The International version is shorter than the original Italian release. In 1963 Raffaele Cutolo called "the Professor" kills a man who had harassed her sister Rosaria, and ends up in prison. After 10 years in Naples prison "Poggioreale" he creates the Nuova Camorra Organizzata with his friends Alfredo Canale and Pasquale Zara "the animal". The organization grows till in the seventies it clashes with the old families of the Camorra, starting the War of the Camorra that will bleed the entire South Italy in the 1970s and 1980s. In 1980 an earthquake destroys Naples and the Campania region....