Suburra - 2015 Italian neo-noir film production of Cattleya and Rai Cinema, directed by Stefano Sollima, who is a well-established director since his successful TV series Romanzo criminale and Gomorra. based on the novel by Carlo Bonini and Giancarlo De Cataldo of the same name. The film focuses on the connections between organized crime and politics in Rome in 2011. Suburra was the name of a suburb of Ancient Rome, populated by taverns and brothels, where noble senators met with criminals in secret to do business and make money. Two thousand years later, not much seems to have changed in the Italian capital, politics and criminality continue to do business and the real world is governed by laws drawn up by corrupt politicians.
In 2011, Ostia (suburb of Rome) is the subject of a giant real estate project intended to make the harbor of Ancient Rome the Las Vegas of today. But the place soon becomes a battlefield where criminals and politicians either join forces cynically or fight each other ruthlessly. The infernal showdown will last seven days, taking many lives.
The portrait of a humanity driven by money and extreme ambition, in which the law of the strongest prevails and there are no positive heroes, between the halls of parliament, rooms of the Vatican, luxury hotels, flashy villas, run-down suburbs, fierce executions, drugs, parties, and protests. There’s a lot going on in Suburra, perhaps too much for just two hours of film. The TV series that will be based on it and has already been announced (comprising 10 episodes produced by Netflix, currently in development) will make much better use of so much material.
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