Gomorrah (2008) on Netflix
In Naples, five lives cross paths with the Camorra. Among them a middleman who carries money to prisoners' families, a thirteen-year-old delivery boy, a tailor, and two young men who want in.
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- IMDb7.0/1053,542 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes91%
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Plot summary
A feud inside the Camorra families who run Scampia and Secondigliano shapes the lives of five people in the province of Naples and Caserta. Don Ciro is a timid middleman who delivers money to the families of imprisoned clan members. Totò, thirteen, runs groceries in the Vele of Scampia and wants to join the gang he sees on the streets. Pasquale is a couture tailor who takes a secret night job training Chinese garment workers. Roberto, a graduate, works in waste management for Franco, who disposes of industrial toxic waste in the southern countryside. Marco and Ciro, two young men who imitate Hollywood gangster films, run a small racket of their own.
Cast
- Salvatore Abbruzzeseas Totò (as Salvatore Abruzzese)
- Vincenzo Altamuraas Gaetano (as Gaetano Altamura)
- Italo Rendaas Italo
- Simone Sacchettinoas Simone
- Francesco Pirozzias Michele
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Gomorrah (2008)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Oreste Spagnuolo, a member of the Casalesi clan and the main perpetrator of the Castel Volturno massacre, alleged that director Matteo Garrone paid a pizzo of 20,000 euros to get the film made, and insinuated that the actor Terracciano was cast as part of the deal.
- In November 2022 a Tumblr post about knockoff boots whose tag misspelled the film as "Goncharov" and Garrone as "Matteo JWHJ0715" went viral, spawning a fandom that invented a plot, fan art and thematic analysis for the non-existent film.
- The truck-stop scene where the tailor Pasquale sees Scarlett Johansson on TV wearing one of his dresses was based on a passage of the book about Angelina Jolie wearing a counterfeit dress to the Oscars; unable to get that footage from the Academy, Garrone used footage of Johansson at the Venice Film Festival in 2006 instead.
