The Godfather is an Academy Award winning 1972 crime film based on the novel of the same name by Mario Puzo and directed by Francis Ford Coppola, with screenplay by Puzo and Coppola. The film stars Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, Robert Duvall, Diane Keaton, and James Caan. The story spans 10 years from 1945 to 1955 and chronicles the Corleone crime family.
