The Professor

“The man who taught the Godfather”

Naples, in the decades when the city's underworld answered to whoever could frighten it most. Young Franco goes to prison for a murder and, from inside, builds himself into 'O Professore di Vesuviano (Ben Gazzara), the man the clans take their orders from. Giuseppe Tornatore sets Rosaria (Laura del Sol) beside him, the one person the Professor lets close.