Mafioso (1962)

Norma Bengell: Marta

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• Marta : [seeing a dead person in a bed surrounded by people eating]  Look!

  Antonio Badalamenti : It's nothing. A man died. It's an old custom. His friends are throwing a party for him.

  Antonio Badalamenti : [to one of the mourners with a plate of food]  Cumbari. How'd he die?

  Man at wake : [matter-of-factly]  Two bullets.

  Antonio Badalamenti : [with urgency to the driver]  Right. Let's go!

• Marta : Your mother hasn't said a word to me since we arrived. She stares at me as if I was some kind of exotic animal.

• Antonio Badalamenti : [looking ahead on the ferry]  Look over there!

  [enthusiastically] 

  Antonio Badalamenti : Sicily! Island of the sun and Cyclops! The inspiration to all the poets!

  [noticing his wife's lack of enthusiasm] 

  Antonio Badalamenti : What's the matter, Marta?

  Marta : [wistfully]  Nothing. I was just watching Italy fade away.

• Antonio Badalamenti : [At lunch table, asking about Rosalia's engagement]  To whom?

  Nino's father : Domenico Licasi... for more than two years.

  Antonio Badalamenti : I didn't know.

  Nino's father : It's not official.

  Antonio Badalamenti : What does he do?

  Nino's father : He sits.

  Marta : [Unfamiliar with the term "sit"]  Office worker?

  Antonio Badalamenti : Unemployed. That's how we put it here.

  Nino's father : If they marry, I'll have another mouth to feed.

  Rosalia : [In protest]  Domenico wouldn't accept! He's a worker!... but unlucky.

• Antonio Badalamenti : [At the lunch table, asking about old acquaintances]  - How's Ignacio?

  Nino's father : He left.

  Antonio Badalamenti : And Ciccio?

  Nino's father : Emigrated.

  Antonio Badalamenti : And Alfio?

  Nino's father : [Answers in local dialect]  "in jail"

  Antonio Badalamenti : In jail?

  Nino's father : Crime of honor.

  Antonio Badalamenti : And Filo?

  Antonio Badalamenti : [Everybody at table suddenly becomes uncomfortably silent]  Dead?

  Nino's father : Went astray

  Marta : [Turning to Uncle Turi]  What's that mean?

  Uncle Turi : Betrayed his friends.

  Nino's father : Goes around on a motorbike, agitating among the farm laborers.

  Antonio Badalamenti : And Tota? And Nicola? And Jano?

  Nino's father : All sitting. You were lucky, even though you deserved it. Don't forget that.

  Antonio Badalamenti : I won't... And after lunch, I'm going to see Don Vincenzo. I've a favor to do for an important businessman - an American from Calamo.