The Repenter

{{Infobox film | name = The Repenter | image = The Repenter.jpg | director = Pasquale Squitieri | writer = | starring = Franco Nero | music = Ennio Morricone | cinematography = Silvano Ippoliti | editing = Mauro Bonanni<ref name=adci>{{cite web|title=Il pentito (1985)|website=Archivio del Cinema Italiano|access-date=16 August 2021|url=https://www.archiviodelcinemaitaliano.it/index.php/scheda.html?codice=AG5189}}</ref> | producer = | studio = C. G. Silver Film<ref name=adci /> | distributor = Columbia Pictures<ref name=adci /> | released = {{Film date|1985}} | runtime = | country = Italy | language = Italian <br> English | budget = }} '''''Il pentito''''' (internationally released as '''''The Repenter''''' and ''The Squealer'') is a 1985 Italian crime-drama film directed by Pasquale Squitieri.<ref>{{cite news|last=Lietta Tornabuoni|title=Squitieri nell'Ameritalia della mafia|newspaper=La Stampa|date=3 July 1985|page=21}}</ref> The film is loosely based on actual events involving, among others, pentito Tommaso Buscetta, judge Giovanni Falcone and banker Michele Sindona.<ref>{{cite book|author1=Roberto Chiti |author2=Roberto Poppi |author3=Enrico Lancia |title=Dizionario del cinema italiano|date=1991 |publisher=Gremese Editore, 1991|isbn=887742429X}}</ref>

== Cast == *Tony Musante: Vanni Ragusa *Franco Nero: Judge Falco *Max von Sydow: Spinola *Erik Estrada: Salvo Lercara *Rita Rusic: lover of Vanni Ragusa *Ivo Garrani: Boss *Marino Masè: Carabinieri Lieutenant *Tony Sperandeo: killer *Imma Piro *Claudine Auger *Marina Berti *Philippe Lemaire *Rik Battaglia ==References== {{Reflist}}

==External links== *{{IMDb title|0091744}}

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