![]() The Don agrees to have his men punish the young men responsible (in a non-lethal manner) in return for future service if necessary. The Don's wife is godmother to Bonasera's shamed daughter, a relationship the Don uses to extract new loyalty from the undertaker. The Don is disappointed in Bonasera, who'd avoided most contact with the Don due to Corleone's nefarious business dealings. Vito ( Marlon Brando), the head of the Corleone Mafia family, is known to friends and associates as "Godfather." He and Tom Hagen ( Robert Duvall), the Corleone family lawyer, are hearing requests for favors because, according to Italian tradition, "no Sicilian can refuse a request on his daughter's wedding day." One of the men who asks the Don for a favor is Amerigo Bonasera, a successful mortician and acquaintance of the Don, whose daughter was brutally beaten by two young men because she refused their advances the men received minimal punishment from the presiding judge. In late summer 1945, guests are gathered for the wedding reception of Don Vito Corleone's daughter Connie ( Talia Shire) and Carlo Rizzi ( Gianni Russo).The synopsis below may give away important plot points.
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