The old-school Mafia doctor and boss of Corleone. Production Context Release: Originally aired in 2007 on Canale 5 in Italy.

The fictional moral foil to Riina; a childhood friend who becomes a police officer.

The first episode of the Italian miniseries (translated as The Boss of Bosses or Corleone ), titled "1943–1958," chronicles the rise of Salvatore "Totò" Riina from a poverty-stricken child in Corleone to a rising figure in the Sicilian Mafia. Episode Summary

The story begins in 1943 in Corleone, Sicily. Young Totò Riina witnesses his father and brother die while attempting to extract gunpowder from an unexploded WWII bomb to sell. Left as the head of his family at age 13, Totò is driven by extreme poverty and a desire for power.