Francis Ford Coppola · 1974 · exile

Francis Ford Coppola's 1974 film, running two stories against each other. A boy escapes the Sicilian village where his family has been killed and arrives at Ellis Island alone; sixty years later his son runs the family from a compound at Lake Tahoe and takes the business to Havana on the eve of the revolution. One man builds something, the other hollows it out.

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   Corleone

   In the Sicilian town of Corleone, the local don has Vito Andolini's father, brother and mother killed, and the boy is smuggled out of the country alone - the beginning that everything in both films eventually refers back to.

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   Ellis Island

   He arrives at Ellis Island with a label round his neck, is renamed Corleone after his village by a clerk who mishears, and is put in isolation with smallpox - a child looking out of a window at the Statue of Liberty.

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   New York

   In Little Italy the young Vito works, loses his job to a local extortionist's nephew, and quietly kills the man - and builds from that a reputation as someone who does favours, which is the whole architecture of what follows.

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   Lake Tahoe

   Sixty years on, Michael Corleone runs the family from a fortified compound at Lake Tahoe, where an assassination attempt through the bedroom window tells him the order came from inside - and the hunt for who turns inward.

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   Havana

   In Havana on New Year's Eve 1958, Michael negotiates the family's future with Hyman Roth while the Batista government collapses around the party - and identifies his brother's betrayal with a kiss.