Directed by Matteo Garrone • 2008 • Italy
Starring Toni Servillo, Salvatore Abruzzese, Gianfelice Imparato
Matteo Garrone’s GOMORRAH is a stark, shocking vision of contemporary gangsterdom, and one of cinema’s most authentic depictions of organized crime. In this tour de force adaptation of undercover Italian reporter Roberto Saviano’s best-selling exposé of Naples’ Mafia underworld (known as the Camorra), Garrone links five disparate tales in which men and children are caught up in a corrupt system that extends from the housing projects to the world of haute couture. Filmed with an exquisite detachment interrupted by bursts of violence, GOMORRAH is a shattering, socially engaged true-crime story from a major new voice in Italian cinema.
This interview with GOMORRAH director Matteo Garrone was shot in July 2009 in Rome.
Actor-director Toni Servillo, who plays the character Franco in GOMORRAH, is from the region in Italy where the film is set. He was interviewed in July 2009 in Rome.
This short video piece, produced in 2009, features GOMORRAH actors Toni Servillo, Gianfelice Imparato, and Salvatore Cantalupo.
