His boss, Franco 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.
Roberto is a graduate who works in waste management. Totò, who has delivered groceries to Maria, is forced to lure her out of her apartment, where his comrades execute her. The gang members decide to stand their ground and exact violent retribution by selecting a woman, Maria, as their next victim, as her son has joined a clan of Secondigliano secessionists. Later, while hanging out with his gang in the streets of Scampia, one of his gang is killed in a drive-by. As the feud intensifies, families in the neighborhood whose loyalties are suspect are ordered to move out or suffer violence Totò's fellow gang members receive similar threats. His initiation in a cavern consists of him being shot while wearing a bulletproof vest as a test of courage. He returns the items to the gang, and asks to join. Totò 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. Ciro, still somewhat blood-spattered, walks off past several bodies to an uncertain future. The pair raid the place, killing everyone but Ciro, and take most of the money, leaving some cash on the table for Ciro. He leads them to the location where he is given the money for distribution.
They refuse his offer, and tell Ciro that he has to "pay" for his life by selling some of his former associates. Fearing for his life, he later offers to defect to their side. After the feud develops within the clan, he is ambushed by a pair of angry secessionists during a delivery. The film intertwines five separate stories of people whose lives are touched by organized crime.ĭon Ciro is a timid middleman who distributes money to the families of imprisoned Di Lauro clan members. The Faida erupts between members of the Di Lauro syndicate and the so-called scissionisti (secessionists), who are led by Raffaele Amato, brother of two of the men killed in the opening scene. An assassination occurs between clans of the Di Lauro Camorra syndicate which rule Scampia- Secondigliano, and triggers the so-called Faida di Scampia ( Scampia feud) (in reality the war started in October 2004 and ended in September 2005 with paolo di lauro arrest) which is the backdrop of the entire movie. Some gangsters are relaxing in a tanning salon. 6 Alleged and documented connections to the Camorra.
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It also won five awards at the 2008 European Film Awards.Ī 2014 TV series of the same name is loosely based on the same book, but is otherwise unrelated to the film. It received critical acclaim, winning the Grand Prix at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival and seven David di Donatello Awards, including Best Film and Best Director (for Garrone). The film was released in Italy on, and premiered in North America at the Toronto International Film Festival on 11 September 2008, followed by release in New York City and Los Angeles on 13 February 2009.
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. Gomorrah ( Italian: Gomorra) is a 2008 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.
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