“Gomorra”: HBO Portugal premieres last season and film derived from the cult Italian series – Current Events
The fifth and final season of “Gomorra”, a cult Italian series based on the homonymous bestseller by Roberto Saviano (which also inspired Matteo Garrone’s acclaimed film of the same name), opens this Saturday, November 20, on HBO Portugal. On the same day, a streaming platform also makes available the film derived from the saga “L’immortale” (2019), which works as a narrative bridge between the fourth and fifth seasons. The thriller directed by Marco D’Amore did not make its debut on the Portuguese commercial circuit, having only passed through the Festa do Cinema Italiano, in 2020.
Sky Italia’s bet is available on national television in the streaming service, after the first three seasons have been broadcast on national television on RTP2.
“Gomorra” tells the story of a group from the Camorra, a Neapolitan mafia. In season one, Don Pietro Savastano leads the Savastanos, one of the most powerful clans in the Camorra, which enforces its law in the suburbs of Secondigliano. His right hand man is the intelligent and ambitious Ciro Di Marzio, a friend of his son Gennaro. Based on this argument, a series portrays the confrontation between the two capos, the betrayal, revenge and the personal life of Camorra members.
At the start of the fifth season, Genny is forced into hiding and away from his wife and child, after a confrontation that shook Naples. His only ally is O Maestrale, Ponticelli’s mysterious crime boss, advances to HBO Portugal in a statement. “War is imminent and his enemies are fierce. But Genny is about to make a sensational discovery: Ciro Di Marzio is alive in Latvia. And nothing will ever be the same,” adds the streaming platform.
Salvatore Esposito is back as Genny Savastano. Ivana Lotito also returns as Azzurra, “who, having been abandoned by Genny, will do everything to keep little Pietro safe, away from his father and everything he represents”, and Arturo Muselli who once again plays the role. by Enzo Blue Blood, the former King of the Forcellas, “now feeling guilty for having seen many comrades die because of him”, points out HBO Portugal.
The final season will also feature Domenico “Mimmo” Borrelli, who plays Don Angelo, known as The Maestrale. Tania Garribba embodies Donna Luciana, an O Maestrale wife, “a woman with a fierce character like her husband, as well as a shrewd and refined intelligence,” lectures the streaming platform. Carmine Paternoster also joins the cast as O Munaciello, one of Secondigliano’s bosses. Rounding out the cast are Antonio Ferrante in the role of Vincenzo Garignano, known as O Galantommo, an elderly head of a small town at the foot of Vesuvius, and Nunzia Schiano, “a proud and tireless woman, devoted wife of her former employer for nearly fifty years.”
After debuting in 2014, the series has become the most well-defined Italian television production of recent years on a global scale, broadcasting in more than 190 territories, whose list includes the United States, United Kingdom, France, Germany, Australia or New Zealand .
Directors Stefano Sollima, Francesca Comencini and Claudio Cupellini are some of the names of the new Italian cinema and helped to shape the raw and realistic effect, one of the most praised elements of the drama.
Filmed between Naples, Rome and Riga, the ten new episodes of the last season have a script by Leonardo Fasoli and Maddalena Ravagli, who also wrote the proposal for the series with Roberto Saviano. Valerio Cilio and Gianluca Leoncini complete the team of screenwriters.
The first five and ninth episodes are directed by Marco D’Amore, which occurred two episodes of season four and “L’immortale”, while episodes 6, 7, 8 and 10 were directed by Claudio Cupellini, who is in charge of the series since its inception. The two directors are also the season’s artistic supervisors.