Gomorrah (2009)

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Toni Servillo in 'Gomorra' - Fandango

Rating: NONE

Release Date: Feb 13, 2009

Running Time: 136 mins.

Additional Notes: dialogue Italian, subtitled English

Country Of Origin: Italy

starring: Toni Servillo, Gianfelice Imparato, Salvatore Abruzzese, Maria Nazionale, Carmine Paternoster, Salvatore Cantalupo, Gigio Morra, Marco Macor, Ciro Petrone, Simone Sacchettino

director: Matteo Garrone

Made up of six short episodes with six main characters--all revolving around the four-sided criminality between the port of Naples, Scampia, Castelvolturno and Terzigno.

PETER TRAVERS - January 21, 2009

What the hell is left to say about the Mafia after The Godfather Goodfellas, and The Sopranos? You'd be surprised. Gomorrah,, arriving in the U.S. after stirring up a shit storm in Italy, is out to rip the mob a new one. Based on a bestseller by journalist Roberto Saviano, who has required police protection 24/7 since the book came out in 2006, Gomorrah examines not the biblical sin city of Gomorrah and its evil twin, Sodom, but modern Naples under the rule of the Camorra crime syndicate. What…

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