For the 50th anniversary of the saga, the three parts are available in 4K Ultra HD.
In 1970, Francis Ford Coppola was hired by Paramount to adapt to the cinema The Godfather, the best-selling novel by Mario Puzo. A masterful masterpiece, a monument of Italian-American literature. For this standard-bearer of a generation of filmmakers dreaming of independence, of a new Hollywood that wants to abolish the hegemony of the studios and broadcast European audacity on American screens, this commission is a step back from more personal. A priori, the cynical and violent story of the Corleones, a New York mafia “family”, hardly concerns him. However, this project, which will occupy him for almost twenty years, will offer him the opportunity to establish on the screen, via fiction, his share of truth.
Released in 1972, The Godfather was first received as a big Hollywood commercial machine, before becoming the biggest success of cinema since Gone with the wind in 1939. Today, its two sequels are unmissable “classics”, the object of a real passion/reverence for film lovers. The sequels were certainly only the consequences of the unprecedented success of the first part, but this trilogy is now offered to us as a finished, coherent whole which must be honored at its fair value. On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of Francis Ford Coppola’s masterpiece, The Godfatherthe three parts of the saga are the subject of a meticulous restoration under the direction of the director himself and are available in 4K Ultra HD for the first time in their history since March 23.