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Fortune Is Fickle

Salvatore and his family try to avoid any involvement with the Mafia in Palermo, Sicily, during the roaring 1970s in this touching coming-of-age story. From Walter Presents, in Italian with English subtitles.

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Fortune Is Fickle

Season 2 Episode 10 | 61m 12s

Palermo is setting up an anti-Mafia operation led by Judge Costa. Will there be fallout?

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