Il Capo dei Capi
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| Country of origin | Italy |
| Original language | Italian |
| No. of episodes | 6 |
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| Producer | Pietro Valsecchi |
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| Running time | 90 minutes |
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| Network | Canale 5 |
| Release | 25 October – 29 November 2007 |
Il Capo dei Capi (The Boss of the Bosses) is an Italian biographical crime drama miniseries which debuted on Canale 5 in October and November 2007. It tells the story of Salvatore Riina, alias Totò u Curtu (Totò the Short), a mafioso boss from Corleone, Sicily. Riina is played by Palermo-born actor, Claudio Gioè, and the series was directed by Alexis Sweet and Enzo Monteleone. The series is inspired from the eponymous book-inquiry of Giuseppe D'Avanzo and Attilio Bolzoni. It was broadcast in the UK in the spring of 2013 on the Sky Arts channel, retitled Corleone and split into 12 one-hour episodes.