Suburra (film)

Suburra
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Directed by	it
Screenplay by	Stefano Rulli Sandro Petraglia Carlo Bonini Giancarlo De Cataldo
Starring	Pierfrancesco Favino Elio Germano Claudio Amendola
Music by	M83
Cinematography	Paolo Carnera
Release dates	October 14, 2015 (2015-10-14)
Language	Italian

Suburra is 2015 Italian neo-noir film directed by Stefano Sollima, based on the novel by Carlo Bonini and Giancarlo De Cataldo of the same title. The movie was financed by Netflix and RAI. The movie focuses on the connections between organized crime and politics in Rome in 2011. Suburra was the name of a suburb of Ancient Rome.

Plot

Filippo Malgradi is an italian MP who is currently involved in a bill to change the classification of certain administrative areas; his objective is to allow a real estate project in a certain region of Rome so that it could be turned into a modern Las Vegas. He has close relations with a local crime boss - known as «Samurai», a former right-wing terrorist turned local crime boss under the cover of an unsuspecting pump station owner - who also has very deep interests in the real estate project. «Samurai» has privileged ties to the Vatican Bank, who will finance the project and profit immensely from it.

One evening, Filippo Malgradi goes into an hotel room with two prostitutes - Sabrina and an unnamed girl, who is underage - to engage in a «sex and drugs» party. The underage girl dies from intoxication and Filippo and Sabrina have to dispose of the body. Filippo runs away and Sabrina calls a gypsy friend - Alberto Anacleti, known as «Spadino» - to help her get rid of the body. They decide to throw the body into the banks of the river Tiber.

«Spadino» originates from a Gipsy family who made a fortune as money-lenders and collecting debts by violent means. They lent money to the father of «Sebastiano», an upper class pimp who is a close friend of the prostitute Sabrina and who organises secret parties in his family villa for important members of the Italian high society. Sebastiano's father commits suicide after being unable to pay his debts and Manfredi Anacleti - the patriarch of the Anacleti family - summons Spadino to convince him to waive all his property to pay for his fathers debts.

«Spadino» then decides to blackmail Filippo into purchasing drugs and prostitutes from him and his family, threatening to reveal everything he knows. Filippo asks a member of the party to put «Spadino» in his place; the MP asks Aureliano Adami (known as Number 8) to teach «Spadino» a lesson but the confrontation ends up being more violent than expected and Aureliano Adami kills «Spadino» leaving Manfredi Anacleti infuriated and thirsty for revenge.

Aureliano Adami is a local thug who controls the suburban part of Rome that is going to be the target of the real estate project permitted by the bill in discussion. His father was also a criminal and a close friend of «Samurai» albeit his means were much less violent. He has agreed with «Samurai» a division in profits as long as Aureliano Adami convinces - by violent means - local small business owners to sell their properties at a bargain to «Samurai». Aureliano Adami is deeply in love with a drug-addict named Viola.

Filippo and Sabrina make a pact of silence over what happened that night and Sabrina, fearful that the Anacleti or the Judiciary may get to her, asks her pimp Sebastiano for help. Sebastiano lets her stay in her place and hears her confession. He then decides to reveal the identity of «Spadino's» murderer to Manfredi Anacleti in exchange for his family's villa.

Anacleti's henchman attempt unsuccessfully to kill Aureliano Adami. Fearful that an all-out war between Aureliano Adami and Manfredi Anacleti could threaten his real estate interests, «Samurai» decides to intervene between the two to bring about some peace. In the meantime Manfredi Anacleti learns about the real estate project and also wants his share in the business.

Manfredi Anacleti blackmails Sebastiano to hand him over the prostitute Sabrina; in turn, Sabrina tells Manfredi Anacleti the name of the politician who is behind the project, which she reveals to be Filippo Malgradi. Manfredi Anacleti bursts into Filippo's apartment and takes his son as a hostage, demanding a participation in the business. Filippo, in rage, asks «Samurai» for protection. «Samurai», who does not want to lose the transaction, attempts to reason with Aureliano Adami but Aureliano tells «Samurai» that he is old and outdated. «Samurai», who felt offended by Aureliano's words and also fearful that the Vatican would back down on financing the project, decides to kill Aureliano Adami and his henchmen. During the shooting, the drug-addict Viola hides and manages to escape despite «Samurai's» efforts. He decides share the profits only with Manfredi Anacleti.

In the meantime Manfredi Anacleti turns greedy and fails with his promise to return the family villa to Sebastiano, severely beating Sebastiano as a lesson and intimidation. The bill is also approved, the Vatican provides financing and everything seems to be in motion to provide Filippo Malgradi, Manfredi Anacleti and «Samurai» with their millions.

Then an unexpected turn of events follows.

The body of the underaged prostitute is found in the banks of the river. Sebastiano, in a fit of rage, assaults Anacleti Manfredi when he is arriving home at nigh, completely alone and beats him severely. He then leaves the patriarch of the family to the rage of a ferocious pitbull. After the approval of the bill, the Italian Prime-Minister asks for resignation from office and Filippo Malgradi sees his parliamentary immunity at stake, leaving him at the mercy of the Judiciary, who is planning. Finally, «Samurai» is killed while leaving his mother's apartment by Viola, Aureliano Adami's girlfriend.

Cast

• Pierfrancesco Favino as Filippo Malgradi
• Elio Germano as Sebastiano
• Claudio Amendola as "Samurai"
• Alessandro Borghi as Aureliano "Numero 8" Adami
• Greta Scarano as Viola
• Giulia Elettra Gorietti as Sabrina
• Adamo Dionisi as Manfredi Anacleti
• Giacomo Ferrara as Alberto "Spadino" Anacleti
• Antonello Fassari as Sebastiano's father
• Jean-Hugues Anglade as Cardinal Berchet
• Nazzareno Bomba as Bacarozzo
• Marco Zangardi as Rognati

External links

• Suburra at IMDb