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)
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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
To call it a sequel is a travesty
This movie is way to be good to be labelled a sequel to The Godfather . Rather it is more of a companion piece to the original and the two perfectly compliment each other . IT is both a sequel and prequel showing the rise of the young vito and moral decline of Micheal . Both characters are brought to life with uncanny ability by Robert DeNiro and Al Pacino . To say that these two are good actors is like saying that a nuclear bomb makes a loud noise and in this movie they prove why they are at the top of their respective crafts .
Al Pacino is the standout in the ensemble cast and its amazing how his eyes have changed from the first part . They are now cold , ruthless and unemotional and betray the price which Micheal Corleone has paid for power .
Watch this movie and learn why it is the greatest gangster film of all time.
Al Pacino is the standout in the ensemble cast and its amazing how his eyes have changed from the first part . They are now cold , ruthless and unemotional and betray the price which Micheal Corleone has paid for power .
Watch this movie and learn why it is the greatest gangster film of all time.
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- taimur74
- May 8, 2001
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- 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
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Box office
- Budget
- $13,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $47,834,595
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $171,417
- Nov 10, 2019
- Gross worldwide
- $47,962,897
- Runtime3 hours 22 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
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