Harvey Keitel takes on the twilight years of a legendary underworld figure in Lansky, a 2021 crime drama that treats old age and old secrets as two sides of the same interrogation.
What is Lansky about?
Federal investigators reopen a decades-old case against an elderly former crime boss they believe hid a fortune built over a lifetime in organized crime. As a journalist arrives to hear his side of the story, the film moves between present-day interviews and flashbacks that trace his rise inside a notorious criminal syndicate, weighing the gap between the man's own account and what the government has spent years trying to prove.
About the cast
Harvey Keitel anchors the film opposite John Magaro, who plays the younger version of the central figure across the flashback timeline. The supporting cast includes Minka Kelly, AnnaSophia Robb, Sam Worthington, Robert Walker Branchaud, Sandra Ellis Lafferty and Shane McRae, filling out the world of agents, family and associates that surrounds the two timelines.
Context & significance
Directed by Eytan Rockaway, Lansky is an American biographical thriller from 2021 running just under two hours. It belongs to a run of films that treat the mid-century American mob less as spectacle and more as a character study, using an ongoing federal inquiry as the frame for looking back at a life. The dual-timeline structure keeps the subject's guarded present-day voice in constant tension with the ambition of his younger self.
Watching Lansky on Ktime
Lansky is available on K-Time with Persian dubbing and Persian subtitles, so viewers can choose either the dubbed track or the original English performances with Farsi subtitles. As with the rest of the catalogue, watching requires signing in with a K-Time account; the page itself is free to browse. The service is built around a Farsi-first viewing experience for Persian-speaking audiences everywhere.