Suburra: Blood on Rome
| Television series | |
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| German title | Suburra: Blood on Rome |
| Original title | Suburra: la serie |
| Country of production | Italy |
| original language | Italian , Roman dialect , Romani |
| year | 2017 |
| Production company |
Cattleya , Netflix |
| Episodes | 18 in 2+ seasons |
| genre | Drama , mafia |
| Director | Giuseppe Capotondi , Andrea Molaioli , Michele Placido |
| script | Daniele Cesarano , Barbara Petronio |
| production | Marco Chimenz , Gina Gardini , Giovanni Stabilini , Riccardo Tozzi |
| music | Lorenzo Peluso , Patrizio Marone |
| camera | Arnaldo Catinari |
| First broadcast | October 6, 2017 on Netflix |
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Suburra: Blood on Rome is an Italian television series from 2017. It forms the prelude to the 2015 feature film Suburra by Stefano Sollima , which is based on the 2013 novel of the same name by Giancarlo De Cataldo and Carlo Bonini . The sale of real estate in Rome exposes a web of politics, crime and church and brings together three young criminals who want to be part of the deal by all means. The first season was released on Netflix on October 6, 2017 . The first two episodes directed by Michele Placido were shown in advance at the Venice International Film Festival . Netflix released the second season on February 22, 2019. A third season has been announced.
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1st season
The planned sale of land belonging to the Vatican in Lido di Ostia , a suburb of Rome on the Tyrrhenian Sea , attracts various interested parties. The Sicilian Mafia is planning to build a port as a gateway for drug trafficking in Rome and is using the well-networked cable puller Samurai. This corrupts the once idealistic politician Amedeo Cinaglia and wins him over as a henchman for his dirty business. The resigned mayor Monaschi, on the other hand, hopes that the real estate deal will pay off his debts. To win Monsignor Theodosius, the head of the Vatican building land commission, for her husband, his wife Sara stages a sex orgy in which the priest suffers a heart attack.
Three young men from very different backgrounds meet by chance that evening and decide to blackmail the priest together. Gabriele Marchilli is the son of a police officer who feels unloved by his father and has a love affair with the mayor's wife Sara Monaschi. He finances his studies with small drug deals and is targeted by samurai, who from then on blackmailed the boy and used him for his criminal activities. Aureliano Adami, called "Numero 8", is the son of a Roman criminal clan. After the death of his father, he and his sister Livia fight for supremacy in the organization. Alberto Anacleti, known as “Spadino”, is the younger brother of the head of a Roman Sinti family. He is considered the black sheep of the family and, in order to expand the influence of the criminal clan, is forced to marry the daughter of a befriended family, from which he tries to evade from then on. Although the Adami and Anacleti clans are at war with each other, Aureliano and Spadino become friends.
The threat posed by the three blackmailers does not bring the hoped-for windfall but drives the monsignor to his death. But during a search of his apartment, Aureliano discovers papers about the real estate deal and recognizes their explosiveness. Via Gabriele, the trio makes contact with Sara Monaschi, who enters into a deal with the three young criminals that she hopes will protect her from samurai. It hushed up Theodosius' suicide and saved the Vatican from a scandal. In return, she receives the right to purchase the property. But she is betrayed in turn by her advisor, the Contessa della Rocca Croce, and the land finally goes to the unscrupulous samurai. The friendship of the trio falls apart when Gabriele betrays the other two to the police under pressure from Samurai, and Aureliano brusquely rejects Spadino's attempted advances, who have recognized his homosexuality through their friendship.
In the end, Gabriele lost his father and only realizes after his death that he loved him. Now he wants to become a police officer himself. Aureliano won the power struggle with his sister and took over the Adami clan, but in return he lost his lover, the prostitute Isabelle, who was murdered by Livia. Spadino Anacleti assumes his identity as a "gypsy fagot" and becomes heir to the throne of his brother in the Sinti clan, who is seriously injured in the hospital. Amedeo Cinaglia has finally decided to give up politics and work behind the scenes as a puller of crime like his role model samurai.
2nd season
Livia Adami returns to Rome to reconcile with her brother Aureliano, but is kidnapped by Spadino Anacleti. He loses the power struggle in the Sinti clan against his own mother, who does not want to forgive him for betraying his brother Manfredi. He then frees Livia and leads her to Aureliano, who nevertheless cannot prevent her being murdered by Samurai, the influential puller of the Roman underworld. Aureliano, Spadino and Gabriele Marchilli, who has meanwhile become a police officer, but is still being blackmailed by samurai, join forces again against their mutual opponent.
Samurai's reputation has suffered. His real estate deal in Ostia is still not profitable. The construction of the planned real estate is blocked by emergency shelters for 500 African Mediterranean refugees . Sara Monaschi, the former mayor's wife, benefits financially from running the aid organization . Amedeo Cinaglia, on the other hand, makes himself the mouthpiece of the anti-refugee demonstrations. In the mayoral election, he achieved a surprise success with an independent list. His election recommendation is of decisive importance in the runoff election. Then he takes a stand against his mentor Samurai, who is speculating on a real estate deal with the left, and makes a pact with the right.
In order to bring the issue of internal security to the fore, Aureliano, Spadino and Gabriele carry out several attacks on behalf of Cinaglia, a staged gang war and finally an assassination attempt on the Contessa della Rocca Croce. Still, the politician's triumph is in jeopardy when the popular radio host Adriano tries to reveal his involvement in organized crime. The samurai, who had almost been booted, intervenes again, blackmailing Adriano and thus securing the right-wing election victory, Cinaglia the office of vice-mayor and himself the dependency of the politician.
Aureliano, Spadino and Gabriele are cheated out of their wages by Cinaglia. Samurai demands the death of his young opponents. The policeman, marked by torture by samurai's men, can no longer bear the double life and shoots himself in front of his friends. Their attempt to unite the Adamis and Anacletis clans in joint drug deals fails when one of Aureliano's men takes revenge for his murdered father. Spadino has taken the lead in the clan, not least thanks to the support of his pregnant wife Angelica, but he has to pay a high price for it when he has to murder his lover, DJ Teo, in order to keep his homosexuality a secret. In addition, his leadership seems to be short-lived when his brother Manfredi wakes up from his coma. Adriano offers his two friends his support, so that a trio is formed again in the fight against samurai.
background
The title Suburra refers to the ancient Roman district of Subura , which was known and notorious as a residential area for the poor and as a red light district. Today the term is also used broadly for a slum .
The series tells the prehistory of Stefano Sollima 's film of the same name from 2015. The first season takes place in just under three weeks in 2008. In her staging, she uses the stylistic device of flashbacks : Each episode increases with the dramatic climax at the end of the day and then shows the development of the day towards this peak. At the end of each episode the song 7 vizi capitale by Piotta and Il Muro del Canto can be heard . The refrain can be understood as the motto of the series: "Roma cruda, santa e dissoluta / ama e non perdona, ti divora come un barracuda" (in German for example: "Rome is raw, holy and dissolute / loves and does not forgive, it eats." up like a barracuda ”).
The second season takes place three months after the events of the first season, within 15 days of the elections for the mayor of Rome. The shooting lasted 117 days and took place in over 100 locations in and around Rome, including the Palazzo Spada , the Imperial Forums , the Colosseum , the Piazza di Pietra, the Piazza Colonna , the Via della Conciliazione , the Palazzo Montecitorio and around the Cestius pyramid . Many scenes take place on the Roman coast, the beaches of Ostia and in Fiumicino . For the first time, there are flashbacks to the childhood of the three protagonists.
reception
Suburra was often compared in reviews to Gomorrah , another Italian crime series by the Cattleya film studio , but also to other Netflix in-house productions such as Narcos or Marseille . This is how Daniel Gerhardt calls the series "the capital city counterpart to Gomorrah". Doris Priesching judges: “ Suburra is not Gomorrah and by no means Narcos , but it develops its own urgency in its narrative sharpness and concentration.” Christian Buß misses the multi-layered psychology of Gomorrah and the concrete allusions of the 1992 series and thinks it is “drinkable, open-hearted , breathlessly driving Mafia panorama " Suburra is" explicit in the representation of violence, but vague in relation to real events ". Therefore, the series seems like a "big, bloody, drug-fogged party" and "strangely timeless".
For Daniel Gerhardt, on the other hand, Suburra “ lifts the mafia genre to a new level of cynicism and nihilism ” and shows “perhaps the most stylish gangsters in television history”. Unlike the upright mafia hunter in Alone Against the Mafia , played by the director of the series Michele Placido , and also different from the tired heroes of contemporary series such as Narcos or 4 Blocks, who are striving to legalize their business, are ideas of a correct and in Suburra The wrong side of the law has become old-fashioned and meaningless: "Criminals, politicians and their whisperers are one single degenerate club." This is how Ursula Scheer also judges: "Every dialogue is a pose because nobody wants to reveal himself, every interior a backdrop because representation is everything, above and below with criminals. ”Because everyone can be bought, the“ kitsch of criminal staging ”can go on forever in the eternal city of Rome.
Despite the dominating brutal masculinity, Suzi Feay is impressed by the silent moments of the series: Adamis' sibling relationship, Aureliano's compassion for a dog whose owner he previously murdered, Spadino's exuberant dance routines that are his only moments of real freedom. For her, the Ostia scene with its deserted beaches is surrounded by an atmosphere of melancholy, as it is also the site of the murder of the great Italian filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini .
Web links
- Suburra: Blood on Rome on Netflix
- Suburra: Blood on Rome in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Arianna Finos: Netflix a Venezia porta la Roma criminale di "Suburra" . In: La Repubblica of September 2, 2017.
- ↑ Suburra: Italian Mafia Series gets 2nd season on Netflix , serienjunkies.de, accessed on September 20, 2018
- ↑ Kasey Moore: Suburra: Blood on Rome Renewed for Season 3 at Netflix, Releasing in 2020 . On: What's on Netflix , April 3, 2019.
- ↑ Jade Bukowski: What Does 'Suburra' Mean? In: Decider of October 10, 2017.
- ↑ a b Ursula Scheer: Seeing Rome and dying is one and the same here . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of October 7, 2017.
- ↑ Stefania Ulivi: Mostra del Cinema di Venezia 2017 Intrighi e corruzione, "Suburra: la serie" svela il lato oscuro di Roma In: Corriere della Sera of September 2, 2017.
- ↑ La segunda temporada de "Suburra" se estrena en febrero por Netflix . In: La Capital of January 28, 2019.
- ↑ Suburra 2: Su Netflix La Seconda Stagione Della series . In: movieplayer.it from February 22, 2019.
- ^ A b Daniel Gerhardt: The end of the honorable society . In: The time of October 6, 2017.
- ↑ Doris Priesching: TV brutal: "Suburra", "Colony", "Countdown Copenhagen" . In: Der Standard from October 5, 2017.
- ↑ Christian Buß : The Church, Coke and Coitus interruptus . In: Der Spiegel from October 9, 2017.
- ↑ Suzi Feay: Suburra, Netflix - brutal masculinity . In: Financial Times of September 29, 2017.