The Godfather is a 1972 American crime film directed by Francis Ford Coppola and produced by Albert S. Ruddy from a screenplay by Mario Puzo and Coppola. Starring Marlon Brando and Al Pacino as the leaders of a fictional New York City crime family, the story spans the years 1945-55, centering on the transformation of Michael Corleone from reluctant family outsider to ruthless Mafia boss while chronicling the Corleones under the patriarch Vito.
The movie would later received two sequels, The Godfather Part II in 1974, which follows two plots; Vito's past and his rise as a Mafia boss, and Michael in 1958, where he is consolidating his power after becoming the new Don of the Corleone's and The Godfather Part III in 1990, which an elderly Michael tries to be a legitimate business man to atone for his past sins.
