Gomorrah (2008)
“Gomorra”.
Crime, Drama |
Gomorrah is a Italian crime film directed by Matteo Garrone, based on the non-fiction book of the same name by Roberto Saviano, who also collaborated in the screenplay. It deals with the Casalesi clan, a crime syndicate within the Camorra — a traditional criminal organization based in Naples and Caserta, in the southern Italian region of Campania. The film was released in Italy on 16 May 2008, and premiered in North America at TIFF on 11 September 2008, followed by release in New York City and Los Angeles on 13 February 2009. Gomorrah received critical acclaim, and also won five awards at the 2008 European Film Awards.
The film intertwines five separate stories of people whose lives are touched by organized crime.
Don Ciro
Don Ciro (Gianfelice Imparato) is a timid middleman who distributes money to the families of imprisoned Di Lauro clan members.
Totò
Totò (Salvatore Abruzzese) is a 13-year-old grocery delivery boy who witnesses some drug dealers abandon a bag of drugs and a gun while evading the police at Sette palazzi in Scampia.
Roberto
Roberto (Carmine Paternoster) is a graduate who works in waste management. His boss, Franco (Toni Servillo) provides a low-cost toxic waste disposal service that allows northern industrialists to dispose of materials like chromium and asbestos in the countryside of southern Italy.
Pasquale
Pasquale (Salvatore Cantalupo) is an haute couture tailor who works for Iavarone (Gigio Morra), a garment factory owner with ties to the Camorra. Pasquale takes a night-job training Chinese garment workers.
Marco and Ciro aka Sweet Pea
Marco (Marco Macor) and Ciro (Ciro Petrone) are two young wannabe-gangsters who try to operate their own small racket independently of the local clan. Impressed by mafia portrayals from Hollywood movies, they quote lines and spontaneously reenact scenes from Scarface in Walter Schiavone’s villa while dropping references to Tony Montana, Miami, and Colombians.
Director: Matteo Garrone
Writers: Roberto Saviano (book & screenplay), Maurizio Braucci (screenplay), Ugo Chiti (screenplay), Gianni Di Gregorio (screenplay), Matteo Garrone (screenplay), Massimo Gaudioso (screenplay)
Stars: Gianfelice Imparato, Salvatore Abbruzzese, Toni Servillo, Ciro Petrone, Vincenzo Fabricino, Simone Sacchettino
►Cast:
| Salvatore Abbruzzese | … | Totò (as Salvatore Abruzzese) |
| Simone Sacchettino | … | Simone |
| Salvatore Ruocco | … | Boxer |
| Vincenzo Fabricino | … | Pitbull |
| Vincenzo Altamura | … | Gaetano (as Gaetano Altamura) |
| Italo Renda | … | Italo |
| Francesco Pirozzi | … | Michele |
| Antonio Aiello | … | Farrel |
| Vincenzo Caso | … | Enzo |
| Anna Sarnelli | … | Totò’s mother |
| Salvatore Russo | … | O’Lungo |
| Antonio Spina | … | O’Zi Bi |
| Francesco Paesano | … | O’Chiatto |
| Marco Stanchi | … | Killer in tanning salon |
| Armando Irace | … | Killer in tanning salon |
| Lucia Cerullo | … | Woman in tanning salon |
| Leonardo Caforio | … | Gigante |
| Dora Angelone | … | Maria’s friend |
| Angelo Aliberti | … | Man in quarry |
| Luigi Caputo | … | Luigi |
| Gabriele Rainone | … | Policeman |
| Anna Liparulo | … | Neighborhood Girl |
| Giuseppina Cervizzi | … | Neighborhood Girl |
| Antonietta Restelli | … | Neighborhood Girl |
| Rosa Granato | … | Neighborhood Girl |
| Antonio Amato | … | Totò’s friend |
| Antonio Bastelli | … | Totò’s friend |
| Domenico Caruso | … | Totò’s friend |
| Fabio Corvietto | … | Totò’s friend |
| Gaetano di Tota | … | Totò’s friend |
| Gianfelice Imparato | … | Don Ciro |
| Maria Nazionale | … | Maria |
| Salvatore Striano | … | Scissionista |
| Carlo Del Sorbo | … | Don Carlo (as Carlo del Sorbo) |
| Vincenzo Bombolo | … | Bombolone |
| Salvatore Troie | … | Cashier |
| Rosaria Capuozzo | … | Cashier |
| Addolorata Tenizio | … | Widow |
| Andrea Mincione | … | Ex-serviceman |
| Claudio De Lucia | … | Palo |
| Toni Servillo | … | Franco |
| Carmine Paternoster | … | Roberto |
| Alfonso Santagata | … | Dante |
| Massimo Emilio Gobbi | … | Entrepreneur |
| Salvatore Caruso | … | Quarry director |
| Antonio D’Angelo | … | Baron |
| Roberto Comacchio | … | Trucker |
| Salvatore Lorino | … | Wounded trucker |
| Ibrahim Yacoubou | … | Captain |
| Fortunato Cerlino | … | Farmer’s son |
| Enza Castaldo | … | Farmer’s daughter |
| Denis Bajrami | … | Kid driving truck |
| Gianni Jasar | … | Kid driving truck |
| Bjaran Memed | … | Kid driving truck |
| Tetik Nesim | … | Kid driving truck |
| Italo Celoro | … | Farmer |
| Salvatore Cantalupo | … | Pasquale |
| Gigio Morra | … | Iavarone |
| Ronghua Zhang | … | Xian (as Zhang Ronghua) |
| Emanuela Villagrossi | … | Northern entrepreneur |
| Manuela Lo Sicco | … | Pasquale’s Wife |
| Ettore Cuocolo | … | Accountant |
| Riccardo Zinna | … | Entrepreneur |
| Maria De Fortis Nadi | … | Serena |
| Linhe Zheng | … | Interpreter |
| Guoquine Long | … | Long (as Long Guoqine) |
| Ciro Petrone | … | Ciro |
| Marco Macor | … | Marco |
| Giovanni Venosa | … | Giovanni |
| Vittorio Russo | … | Vittorio |
| Bernardino Terracciano | … | Bernardino |
| Costantino Migliaccio | … | Gang member |
| Marcello D’Angelo | … | Gang member |
| Santolo Matrone | … | Gang member |
| Tommy Terracciano | … | Night club cashier |
| Giuseppe Terracciano | … | Killer at the beach |
| Adolfo Crisato | … | Killer at the beach |
| Alda D’Eusanio | … | Self (voice) (archive sound) |
| Pasquale Fernandez | … | Extra |
Sources: imdb & wikipedia