Movies about mafia in the domestic cinema began with the showing of the Italian series "Octopus" on television screens, which gained enormous popularity in the USSR. Later, when video salons became widespread in the Soviet Union in the late 80s, viewers gained access to real classics of films about mafia, such as "The Godfather".
Although, of course, most of the films that flooded the film market at that time were of low quality.
And in the early 90s, Soviet people were surprised to learn that the mafia, considered a product of decaying capitalism, had long since penetrated deeply into all spheres of the national economy, and increasingly films began to appear on screens about Soviet commissars Cattani, who courageously entered into single combat with the newly-minted Soviet mafiosi.
Of course, all these films were copies of low-quality American or Hong Kong action films with karate heroes who single-handedly deal with entire armies of gangsters.
But the rampant organized crime in the 90s provided a lot of material for domestic cinema in the genre of films about the mafia. In the early 2000s, a huge number of such films and series were shot, and interest in domestic cinema increased sharply. Not least due to much higher quality content.
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Soviet films about mafia:
Code of Silence 1 (On the Dark Side of the Moon)
Suite for a General with a Girl
The investigation is conducted by ZnaToKi. Film 21: Without a knife and brass knuckles
The investigation is conducted by ZnaToKi. Film 22: Mafia
Russian Mafia Movies
Code of Silence 2 (The Trail of the Blackfish)
Foreign films about mafia
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