The Godfather Part III
Overview
The Godfather Part III is a 1990 American gangster film
Mob film
Mob films are a subgenre of crime films dealing with organized crime, often the Mafia. Especially in early mob films, there is some overlap with film noir.-History:...

 written by Mario Puzo
Mario Puzo
Mario Gianluigi Puzo was an American author and screenwriter, known for his novels about the Mafia, including The Godfather , which he later co-adapted into a film by Francis Ford Coppola...

 and Francis Ford Coppola
Francis Ford Coppola
Francis Ford Coppola is an American film director, producer and screenwriter. He is widely acclaimed as one of Hollywood's most innovative and influential film directors...

, and directed by Coppola. It completes the story of Michael Corleone
Michael Corleone
Michael Corleone is a fictional character in Mario Puzo's novels, The Godfather and The Sicilian. He is also the main character of the Godfather film trilogy that was directed by Francis Ford Coppola, in which he was portrayed by Al Pacino, who was twice nominated for an Academy Award for his...

, a Mafia
American Mafia
The American Mafia , is an Italian-American criminal society. Much like the Sicilian Mafia, the American Mafia has no formal name and is a secret criminal society. Its members usually refer to it as Cosa Nostra or by its English translation "our thing"...

 kingpin who tries to legitimize his criminal empire. The movie also weaves into its plot a fictionalized account of real-life events—the 1978 death of Pope John Paul I
Pope John Paul I
John Paul I , born Albino Luciani, , reigned as Pope of the Catholic Church and as Sovereign of Vatican City from 26 August 1978 until his death 33 days later. His reign is among the shortest in papal history, resulting in the most recent Year of Three Popes...

 and the Papal banking scandal
Banco Ambrosiano
Banco Ambrosiano was an Italian bank which collapsed in 1982. At the centre of the bank's failure was its chairman, Roberto Calvi and his membership in the illegal Masonic Lodge Propaganda Due...

 of 1981–1982—and links them with each other and with the affairs of Michael Corleone.
Quotations

"Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in."

"The only wealth in this world is children. More than all the money, power on the earth."

"Never hate your enemies. It affects your judgment."

"He'd better be careful. It's dangerous to be an honest man." (refering to the pope)

"When they come... they come at what you love."

"Never let anyone know what you are thinking."

"The higher I go, the crookeder it becomes."

"Your enemies always get strong on what you leave behind."

"Kay, I had a very different destiny planned for us."

"I swear on the lives of my children, give me one last chance to redeem myself and I will sin no more."

 
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