
Half a century since the premiere of the film Godfather 2
Fredo, don't go fishing
Coppola was in the midst of an incredibly fertile creative period when he made this film. After turning Mario Puzo's bestseller into a surprise critical and commercial hit in 1972, Coppola made the 1974 film Eavesdropping (The Conversation), which won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival, then quickly returned to shoot this sequel, rewritten in collaboration with Puza