Cinema surveillance images are loading at the bottom of the page

Gomorrah - Toni Servillo, Gianfelice Imparato, Maria Nazionale, Matteo Garrone

Threat advisory: Guarded - General risk of entertaining activities

Movie propaganda

Power, money and blood: these are the "values" that the residents of the province of Naples and Caserta confront every day. They have practically no choice, and are forced to obey the rules of the "System", the Gomorrah. Only a lucky few can even think of leading a "normal" life.

Five stories are woven together in this violent scenario, set in a cruel and ostensibly invented world, but one that is deeply rooted in reality.

Theatrical propaganda posters

Target demographic movie keyword propaganda

Film crime Italy Italian Mafia violence ensemble drugs children poverty racism immigrants murder

Persons of interest

Salvatore Abruzzese .... Totò
Simone Sacchettino .... Simone
Salvatore Ruocco .... Boxer
Vincenzo Fabricino .... Pitbull
Vincenzo Altamura .... Gaetano
Italo Renda .... Italo
Gianfelice Imparato .... Don Ciro
Maria Nazionale .... Maria
Salvatore Striano .... Scissionista
Carlo Del Sorbo .... Don Carlo
Vincenzo Bombolo .... Bombolone
Toni Servillo .... Franco
Carmine Paternoster .... Roberto
Alfonso Santagata .... Dante Serini
Salvatore Caruso .... Responsabile
Italo Celoro .... Contadino
Salvatore Cantalupo .... Pasquale
Gigio Morra .... Iavarone
Ronghua Zhang .... Xian
Manuela Lo Sicco .... Moglie di Pasquale
Marco Macor .... Marco
Ciro Petrone .... Ciro
Giovanni Venosa .... Giovanni
Vittorio Russo .... Pirata
Bernardino Terracciano .... Zio Bernardino
Roberto Saviano .... Author
Maurizio Braucci .... Screenwriter
Ugo Chiti .... Screenwriter
Gianni Di Gregorio .... Screenwriter
Matteo Garrone .... Screenwriter
Massimo Gaudioso .... Screenwriter
Roberto Saviano .... Screenwriter
Matteo Garrone .... Director

Cinematic intelligence sources

Gomorrah official movie sites:

Gomorrah film production notes
Gomorrah QuickTime movie trailers
Awards and film festivals:

Film Critics Circle of Australia 2009: Nominated: Best Foreign Language Film

NB: French, Italian and Mandarin language dialogue with English language subtitles
See also The Godfather
Studios and distributors:

Madman Cinema

Intelligence analyst

Special Agent Matti

Theatrical report

Despite the expressed desires of certain elements of society, Gomorrah is not the sequel to Sodom: the movie. It is a pun on the word "Camorra", which is the Neapolitan organised criminal community (like the Cosa Nostra in Sicily). So, Italy, organised crime. This is not going to be a comedy.

Gomorrah is full of violence, drugs, lost innocence, poverty, Little Wog Battlers, shooting, bleeding, murder, wads of cash and incomprehensible behaviour (incomprehensible to most of us - only a small percentage of people (those with little or no conscience) can operate within the confines of organised crime). Matteo Garrone presents a bleak look at the Camorra with faded and muted colours, dry and dusty scenery, dilapidated buildings, worn and weary people. The pace drags so you feel like you're trapped in a never-ending nightmare. It's quite torturous. That's in part because it's a European film but also because there are so many stories. It's a bit like the second season of Underbelly: interesting but I was glad to see the end of it. I guess that Sodom was better.

The crime, Italy movie Gomorrah is directed by Matteo Garrone and stars Toni Servillo, Gianfelice Imparato, Maria Nazionale.