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The same year, Stefanelli landed her breakout role as the innocent Apollonia Vitelli-Corleone, the beautiful but doomed first wife of Michael Corleone in the American crime film The Godfather, directed by Francis Ford Coppola. She was shown topless, although she was 16 years old when the production began and 17 when the film came out.
The Godfather Part III is a 1990 American epic crime film produced and directed by Francis Ford Coppola from the screenplay co-written with Mario Puzo. The film stars Al Pacino , Diane Keaton , Talia Shire , Andy García , Eli Wallach , Joe Mantegna , Bridget Fonda , George Hamilton and Sofia Coppola .
Apollonia Corleone (née Vitelli) is a fictional character in Mario Puzo's novel The Godfather. She is portrayed by Simonetta Stefanelli in the film adaptation of the same name. She also appears in flashbacks in The Godfather Part III. Apollonia is a young Sicilian woman of Greek descent born in 1931 who meets Michael Corleone during his exile ...
Mary is sheltered from the violent world of the Corleone crime family. She falls in love with her cousin, Vincent Mancini, Sonny Corleone's illegitimate son. While the family is traveling in Sicily, Michael tells Mary he disapproves of the romance, believing that Vincent's growing involvement in the "family business" puts her life in danger.
Back in the United States, Sonny is murdered. After Michael is notified of Sonny's murder, he and Apollonia prepare to move to Siracusa, but she is killed by a car bomb meant for Michael, proving the other Mafia families know where he is hiding. Michael returns to the United States in 1950 [7] and assumes Sonny's role as Vito's heir apparent.
The first sequence shot for the film was the wedding of Don Vito Corleone's (Marlon Brando) daughter Connie (Talia Shire) to the Judas Carlo Rizzi (Gianni Russo).Pacino learned quickly that ...
"Godfather III' as 'The Death of Michael Corleone' is doubly painful because at the end he doesn't die, but he does worse than die," Coppola said in a 2019 interview with Deadline. "He loses ...
The Godfather was released on March 15, 1972. The feature-length film was directed by Francis Ford Coppola and was based on Mario Puzo's novel of the same name.The plot begins with Don Vito Corleone declining an offer to join in the narcotics business with notorious drug lord Virgil Sollozzo, which leads to an assassination attempt.