Inspired by Roberto Saviano’s best seller, Matteo Garrone’s film uses four stories to take a dive into the criminal business world of the Camorra, in a circle that opens and closes with the issue of merchandise and its life cycle: the “fresh” merch (plastic pieces, designer clothes, watches) is unloaded at Naples harbour for storage and disappeared, while merchandise requiring disposal (chemical and toxic waste, mud, human skeletons) arrives from everywhere in Italy and most of Europe, which will be illegally spread across the countryside of Campania.
In Terzigno, a village on the slopes of mount Vesuvius, Pasquale is a talented tailor who makes designer garments for the Camorra and decides to make more money by training a crew of illegal Chinese immigrants.
North of Naples, a housing project in Scampia – whose triangular shaped buildings are known as the “sails” and which is one of the largest drug markets in Italy – Totò, Don Ciro and Maria are pawns in the war between the secessionists and the Di Lauro clan.
Franco (Toni Servillo) and Roberto represent companies based in Northern Italy who offer to dispose of toxic waste cheaply in the strip of land between the provinces of Naples and Caserta tragically known as the “land of fire” because of the illegal waste disposal activities there. Shooting took place in Grazzanise, Cancello Arnone, Santa Maria La Fossa, Casal di Principe, Qualiano, Giugliano, Villaricca, Nola, Acerra, Marigliano.
Marco and Ciro, adolescents who have grown up idolizing Brian De Palma’s Scarface (1983), begin their personal criminal activity in an area controlled by the Casalesi clan: shooting featured Castel Volturno and the Domiziano coast.
Inspired by Roberto Saviano’s best seller, Matteo Garrone’s film uses four stories to take a dive into the criminal business world of the Camorra, in a circle that opens and closes with the issue of merchandise and its life cycle: the “fresh” merch (plastic pieces, designer clothes, watches) is unloaded at Naples harbour for storage and disappeared, while merchandise requiring disposal (chemical and toxic waste, mud, human skeletons) arrives from everywhere in Italy and most of Europe, which will be illegally spread across the countryside of Campania.
In Terzigno, a village on the slopes of mount Vesuvius, Pasquale is a talented tailor who makes designer garments for the Camorra and decides to make more money by training a crew of illegal Chinese immigrants.
North of Naples, a housing project in Scampia – whose triangular shaped buildings are known as the “sails” and which is one of the largest drug markets in Italy – Totò, Don Ciro and Maria are pawns in the war between the secessionists and the Di Lauro clan.
Franco (Toni Servillo) and Roberto represent companies based in Northern Italy who offer to dispose of toxic waste cheaply in the strip of land between the provinces of Naples and Caserta tragically known as the “land of fire” because of the illegal waste disposal activities there. Shooting took place in Grazzanise, Cancello Arnone, Santa Maria La Fossa, Casal di Principe, Qualiano, Giugliano, Villaricca, Nola, Acerra, Marigliano.
Marco and Ciro, adolescents who have grown up idolizing Brian De Palma’s Scarface (1983), begin their personal criminal activity in an area controlled by the Casalesi clan: shooting featured Castel Volturno and the Domiziano coast.
