Suburra (2015)

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Movie
German title Suburra - 7 days to the apocalypse
Original title Suburra
Country of production Italy ,
France
original language Italian
Publishing year 2015
length 135 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Stefano Sollima
script Stefano Rulli ,
Sandro Petraglia
production Riccardo Tozzi ,
Marco Chimenz
Giovanni Stabilini,
Éric Névé
music M83
camera Paolo Carnera
cut Patrizio Marone
occupation

Suburra - 7 Days to the Apocalypse is an Italian-French fictional film by the director Stefano Sollima from 2015 and is based on the novel Suburra: Black Heart of Rome by the authors Giancarlo De Cataldo and Carlo Bonini . In 2017, Netflix released a prequel to the film in the form of a television series called Suburra: Blood on Rome .

In the seven days before the Berlusconi government resigned in November 2011, the film Suburra takes place in the city ​​of Rome with politicians, gangsters and dignitaries of the Vatican between corruption, striving for power, betrayal and murder.

action

On November 5, 2011, a government crisis appeared in the Italian parliament . Even before the Prime Minister threatens to resign , a law is to be crammed through that will grant building permits for an entertainment district in Ostia , the fallow coastal district of Rome. The puller on behalf of the Mafia is an inconspicuous elderly man with the nickname "Samurai" who enjoys a legendary reputation in the Roman underworld and is also influential in the Vatican. His handyman in parliament is the MP Filippo Malgradi, who is supposed to bribe to ensure that the law gets the necessary majority.

The pact between the underworld, politics and the church is in danger when an underage prostitute dies during one of Malgradi's regular sex orgies. Alberto Anacleti, known as "Spadino", the offspring of a criminal Roma clan, removes the corpse, but then blackmailed the MPs. He does not know what else to do than to engage Aureliano Adami, known as "Numero 8", who is the leader of the underworld of Ostia after the death of his father. The argument between the two young men escalates into a personal one, and Number 8 kills Spadino, which triggers a gang war in the Roman underworld.

Samurai tries to smooth things over in terms of a profitable business for everyone, but when Viola avenges a failed murder attempt on her friend Aureliano by shooting a close friend Manfredi Anacletis, the war gets out of control. Via Sebastiano, the organizer of Malgradi's parties, who is at the mercy of the Anacletis because of his father's debts, they find out the name of the MP, kidnap his son and demand a share in the Ostia business. Numero 8 does not want to reduce his share, for which he has done the dirty work in the Roman coastal suburb for years. Above all, however, he refuses, unlike Sebastiano, who betrayed the prostitute Sabrina to the Anacletis, to hand over his girlfriend Viola.

The “Apocalypse” will take place on November 12th. Samurai murders his former henchman Numero 8. Only Viola escapes the massacre. The law is passed. MEPs celebrate the money and posts that have been promised in return until news of the prime minister's resignation reaches them. Suddenly Malgradi , who was previously immune to criminal prosecution, has become vulnerable. Desperate, he makes his way through demonstrators to the government palace in order to get a safe place on the list, which is supposed to protect him from the access of the judiciary in new elections. The weak Sebastiano finally rebels against Manfredi and lets his attack dog tear the Roma to pieces. The string puller samurai, on the other hand, falls victim to Viola, who kicks him off in front of his mother's apartment and executes him.

criticism

The film service wrote: "A brilliant neo-noir thriller, which conceives its terrifying and at the same time fascinating analysis of Italian rule structures as a demonic countdown to the Last Judgment and captures the monstrous behavior of the powerful in a mannerist frenzy of images."

background

The film, mainly produced by Cattleya and Rai Cinema , was released on October 14, 2015 in Italy and premiered in Germany on June 29, 2016 at the Munich Film Festival .

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See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for Suburra . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF). Template: FSK / maintenance / type not set and Par. 1 longer than 4 characters
  2. ^ Time Online - The End of the Honorable Society
  3. ^ Suburra on filmdienst.de
  4. ↑ SUBURRA (TV SERIES, 2017) on kino-zeit.de