Gomorra (2008)

User Rating:

7.1/10   

Director:

Matteo Garrone

Writers:

Roberto Saviano (book)
Maurizio Braucci (screenplay) ...

Release Date:

16 May 2008 (Italy)

Genre:

Crime | Drama

Plot:

An inside look at Italy's modern-day crime families.

Plot Keywords:

Italy | Camorra | City | Long Take | Chinese

Awards:

Nominated for Golden Globe. Another 19 wins & 15 nominations

Cast

Toni Servillo	...	Franco
Gianfelice Imparato	...	Don Ciro
Maria Nazionale	...	Maria
Salvatore Cantalupo	...	Pasquale
Gigio Morra	...	Iavarone
Salvatore Abruzzese	...	Totò
Marco Macor	...	Marco
Ciro Petrone	...	Ciro
Carmine Paternoster	...	Roberto
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Antonio Aiello	...	Famel
Angelo Aliberti	...	Man in quarry
Vincenzo Altamura	...	Gaetano (as Gaetano Altamura)
Antonio Amato	...	Totò's friend
Dora Angelone	...	Maria's friend
Denis Bajrami	...	Kid driving truck
Antonio Bastelli	...	Totò's friend
Vincenzo Bombolo	...	Bombolone
Leonardo Caforio	...	Gigante
Rosaria Capuozzo	...	Cashier
Luigi Caputo	...	Luigi
Domenico Caruso	...	Totò's friend
Salvatore Caruso	...	Quarry director
Vincenzo Caso	...	Enzo
Enza Castaldo	...	Farmer's daughter
Italo Celoro	...	Farmer
Fortunato Cerlino	...	Farmer's son
Lucia Cerullo	...	Woman in solarium
Giuseppina Cervizzi	...	Girl
Roberto Comacchio	...	Trucker
Fabio Corvietto	...	Totò's friend
Adolfo Crisato	...	Killer at the beach
Ettore Cuocolo	...	Book-keeper
Antonio D'Angelo	...	Baron
Marcello D'Angelo	...	Gang member
Maria De Fortis Nadi	...	Serena
Carlo Del Sorbo	...	Don Carlo
Claudio De Lucia	...	Tout
Gaetano di Tota	...	Totò's friend
Vincenzo Fabricino	...	Pitbull
Massimo Emilio Gobbi	...	Enterpreneur
Rosa Granato	...	Girl
Armando Irace	...	Killer
Gianni Jasar	...	Kid driving truck
Anna Liparulo	...	Girl
Guoquine Long	...	Long (as Long Guoqine)
Salvatore Lorino	...	Wounded trucker
Manuela Lo Sicco	...	Moglie di Pasquale
Santolo Matrone	...	Gang member
Bjaran Memed	...	Kid driving truck
Costantino Migliaccio	...	Gang member
Andrea Mincione	...	Ex-serviceman
Tetik Nesim	...	Kid driving truck
Francesco Paesano	...	O'Chiatto
Francesco Pirozzi	...	Michele
Gabriele Rainone	...	Policeman
Italo Renda	...	Italo
Antonietta Restelli	...	Girl
Salvatore Ruocco	...	Boxer
Salvatore Russo	...	O'Lungo
Vittorio Russo	...	Vittorio
Simone Sacchettino	...	Simone
Alfonso Santagata	...	Dante Serini
Anna Sarnelli	...	Totò's mother
Antonio Spina	...	O'Zi Bi
Marco Stanchi	...	Killer
Salvatore Striano	...	Scissionista
Addolorata Tenizio	...	Widow
Bernardino Terracciano	...	Bernardino
Giuseppe Terracciano	...	Killer at the beach
Tommy Terracciano	...	Night club cashier (as Giuseppe Terraciano)
Salvatore Troie	...	Cashier
Giovanni Venosa	...	Giovanni
Emanuela Villagrossi	...	Northern enterpreneur
Ibrahim Yacoubou	...	Captain
Ronghua Zhang	...	Xian (as Zhang Ronghua)
Linhe Zheng	...	Interpreter
Riccardo Zinna	...	Enterpreneur

Also Known As:

Gomorrah (International: English title) (UK) (USA)
Sei storie brevi (Italy) (fake working title)

Runtime:

137 min

Country:

Italy

Language:

Italian | Mandarin | French

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

Italy:T | UK:15 | Ireland:16 | Portugal:M/16 | Canada:14A (Alberta/British Columbia/Manitoba/Ontario) | Norway:15 | Brazil:18 | Finland:K-15 | Sweden:15 | Netherlands:16 | Spain:18 | Canada:13+ (Quebec) | Argentina:16 | USA:Not Rated | Hong Kong:III | Singapore:M18 | New Zealand:R16 | Mexico:C | France:U (with warning) | Australia:M

Filming Locations:

Naples, Campania, Italy

Company:

Fandango

Trivia:

Roberto Saviano got death threats from the Camorra for exposing their activities in the novel and movie, and is now permanently under police protection.

Goofs:

Revealing mistakes: At the beginning of the movie you can clearly see the American guy's belly moving, when his dead body remains on the chair, where he has been having his nails cut.

Movie Connections:

References "Smurfs" (1981)

Soundtrack:

L'amica di mia moglie

Gangster film European style

yes agree with all of the above comments. Not much to add except the film clearly references several earlier Italian masterpieces. Rocco and His Brothers for one, Paisa for another. I love the way this film strips away the glamour which characterizes Hollywood gangster films to reveal the degraded, degenerate and putrid reality of the criminal world. The people most affected by crime are those at the bottom living on sink estates like the one depicted, with an ineffectual police content to contain the situation in the ghettos. There's a really telling scene where a young graduate, drawn in to a criminal conspiracy of illegal disposal of toxic waste, decides hes had enough. His boss tells him to dump a box of peaches grown on toxic land, 'can t you smell them' ... the way the fruit contrasts with the shiny, flashy big SUV this guy drives. Our knowledge as the audience of what hes been up to, signing off a container of toxic waste to the African captain of a container ship as 'humanitarian aid...' This sort of symbolism elevates the film to the level of the great Italian masterpieces of cinema. Peaches, fruit, food is such a staple of Italian culture. Perfect looking peaches which are grown on toxic land become a metaphor for Italy itself. The measured pace certainly wont be for everyone, five people walked out the multiplex where I watched it. This is the thinking persons gangster movie. You need to work at it. The violence is shocking for its matter of factness whats most disturbing is how human life and dignity have become utterly ... I dunno I m searching for words here. Trivial? Trivial isn't the right word. Its more complete and utter degradation. Human life here has lost all dignity. When someones killed its in almost documentary fashion. Conventions of the gangster genre are discarded instead its shocking in its suddenness and sheer banality. Two obese, sweaty men in bermuda shorts despatch a pair of coked up boys whove been making a nuisance of themselves. Human life here has no value and for me this masterpiece of cinema articulates my belief we are at the beginning of the end of Western civilisation. Appropriate coming from the country which gave us Michelangelo, Caravaggio, and Silvio Berlusconi...