My Brother Anastasia

My Brother Anastasia

1973 · 87 min · ★ 6.9 · Comedy, Crime

Don Salvatore Anastasia, a priest in a seminary in Tropea, Calabria (Italy), gets a ticket to visit his brother in New York. He has never known him, because the brother emigrated illegally in the U.S.A. years before. Upon his arrival in America, he is greeted with much respect, as well as his brother, also from the Italian-American community of Little Italy. Enthusiastic of that, he decided to stay on as assistant pastor in the church of Saint Lucia and bring it to a new shine. Accompanied in New York, his last name, Anastasia, commands respect and, above all, opens the door hitherto locked: his brother, really, is the infamous mob boss Albert Anastasia.

Directed by Steno · Written by Sergio Amidei

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Alberto Sordi Father Salvatore Anastasia
Richard Conte Alberto 'Big Al' Anastasia
Luciano Pigozzi Pasquale
Edoardo Faieta Sonny Boy
Thomas Chu Cinese
Franco Angrisano Commissario De Felice
Feodor Chaliapin Jr. Frank Costello
Maria Tedeschi Colomba Trevisan
Ugo Carboni Don Michele Trevisan

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