“Of course we were afraid!”: How to turn a series on the Mafia – n-tv.de NEWS

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 Tuesday, May 10, 2016

 
 
 

  From Anna Meinecke, Rome
 

 

 
 Welcome to hell: Where the Camorra has its finger in the pie, happened atrocities. The influence of the Italian mafia is frightening legendary and unbroken. The series “Gomorrah” examines the structures behind it.
 

 
 

They knew that their work is good, but they could not be sure that the audience would love it. lucky because the “Gomorrah – The Series” was far beyond the national borders of Italy to success. When the four directors and the cast of Italian format in Rome come together to celebrate the premiere of the second season, they already have a devoted fan base in the back. Before pompous cinema admirers are already waiting at noon to be able to catch a glimpse of their heroes.

“We wanted from the outset an international television series make” explains Stefano Sollina, meanwhile creative line three more directors has developed together with the pay-TV broadcaster Sky one of the best formats, which may have set the market currently. This is his team succeeded. “Gomorra” based on the eponymous book by Roberto Saviano property. After his revelations about the Italian Mafia started living with personal protection. The press conference he came anyway.

“It seems not all is lost”

“Of course we were afraid,” will tell Claudio Cupellini later in an interview with nodding his director colleagues. “But it was also exciting, a very special opportunity.” In Naples dangerous district Scampiao today everyone knows that “Gomorrah” crew. Man them enough coffee. The place has changed, since there arrived the first camera crews. While Matteo Garrone for his award-winning film “Gomorrah” in the shooting in the problem area still vorschob a fictional project, the team at Sky priori open card games had – there were too many people involved

“Scampia. suddenly became the center of so many stories, “said director Francesca Comencini remembers. This has attracted the journalists, the area got more and more attention and open secrets had to be hidden. “The war is not over,” Comencini clarifies. In Scampia but you can see the light today. “It seems to have lost not everything.” Politicians would have just want profile criticism of “Gomorrah” at that time, the directors agree. “For ordinary people, the series was good.”

How brutal as the reality

Of course, it creates discomfort to enter a world that is more cruel in reality, as the images that produce film and television thereof. Constantly had to move about locations, the film crew. We wanted to film, as one of the characters is shot down, told Sollina. But at the designated place died the night before an actual human by bullets. The work on “Gomorra” is so little fiction that it is inextricably linked to the darkest spot of the Italian daily life. “Where the Camorra controls the lives of people, it can not get worse,” Sollina and his colleagues agree.

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“We have turned the most brutal things that you can imagine,” Comencini admits. However, the criticism of the glorification of violence must not bow to “Gomorrah” unlike other series formats in their opinion. “We have not turned, because we liked it, but because it’s true, we have shown a world occur in such things..”

“Gomorrah – The Series” runs order of Roberto Saviano at Amazon

– 10 May at Sky

book Copy. “journey into the realm of the Camorra Gomorra”.
 
 

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