XXIII edition
10/15 December 2013
EDITORIALS
NEWS
PROGRAM
FILMS
WRITERS
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Chandler Award
EVENTS
HONORARY AWARDS
GALLERY
NEWS
PROGRAM
FILMS
WRITERS
Scerbanenco
Conversations
Chandler Award
EVENTS
HONORARY AWARDS
GALLERY
Suburra
Suburra takes a non-moralizing look at corruption in Rome, at the criminal network responsible for the decay of a city teeming with new criminals, Calabrian priests turned money launderers, Gypsy crime bosses and bloggers, neo-fascists and loan sharks, Capocotta and the beaches of Ostia, escorts and transsexuals, corrupt police officers and left-wing salons. This is the Rome of the Samurai and Inspector Malatesta, extorted judges, the fanatical football ultras and hypocritical parties. "It’s fiction, featuring a lot of cocaine, the drug of choice these days, but the episodes in the novel are based on real events." The story looks at a changed Rome, whose criminal underworld is no longer recognizable. Director Paolo Sorrentino wrote of this book: "The impulsive, uncontrollable, immoral and unspoken fascination you could have with the peasants of Corleone who appropriated the city yet preserved an odd moral code of rituals and silence, goat cheese and Bible readings, or the scientific organization and advancement of certain Neapolitan clans, evaporates here. It becomes caricature. "Suburra is a portrait of contemporary Italy. It is another chapter in the endless, dark saga that is the present, about the attempt to transform the Ostia seaside into a Courmayeur-Las Vegas hybrid, by alleged emulators of the Banda della Magliana, with which all they share is a penchant for pistols. The book came about almost by chance, say the authors: "We happened to meet one day in Einaudi’s Rome office, and realized that we were working on the same subject. Through various long discussions we created an outline of events and established the characters and plot points. We recounted the beginning, development and end of our heroes’ lives. We divvied up the chapters and began writing them. We’d exchange them, read them out loud, intervene, integrate, we’d change whatever didn’t work. In the end we autonomously ‘rewrote’ the entire novel." Suburra has also been adapted for stage by Fabrizio Gifuni, with music by Danilo Rea.
Carlo Bonini (Roma, 1967) wrote for Il Manifesto and Il Corriere della Sera before moving to La Repubblica, where he made a name for himself breaking diverse important stories, including the kidnapping of Imam Abu Omar, suspected of belonging to an international terrorism ring; the Telekom Serbia case; and many other investigations often conducted with his colleague Giuseppe D’Avanzo. Bonini always works in the field, as his previous books prove: ACAB (which stands for All Cops Are Bastards and was adapted for the cinema by Stefano Sollima), which looks at the history of a section of the Italian police force that grew up with the myth of the reactionary and violent right; Il Fiore del male, on Renato Vallanzasca, the re-release of which was presented at Courmayeur in 2009; Guantanamo, a journey into the horrors of the US prison; and La toga rossa, the biography of Judge Francesco Misiano.
Judge Giancarlo De Cataldo (Taranto) has lived in Rome since 1973. A writer, translator, playwright and screenwriter for cinema and television, he also contributes to La Gazzetta del Mezzogiorno and Il Messaggero. He is author of the best-selling novel Romanzo criminale, which spawned a film, directed by Michele Placido, and a TV series directed by Stefano Sollima. Among other projects, he has produced the RAI3 series Crimini, written by leading Italian authors. He is a judge on Masterpiece, the world’s first literary TV talent show, which airs on RAI3.
Carlo Bonini
Suburra (with Giancarlo De Cataldo), Einaudi, Torino, 2013
ACAB. All cops are bastard, Einaudi, Torino, 2009
Il mercato della paura. La guerra al terrorismo islamico nel grande inganno italiano (with Giuseppe D'Avanzo), Einaudi, Torino, 2006
Guantanamo. Viaggio nella prigione del terrore, Einaudi, Torino, 2004
Il fiore del male, Tropea, Milano, 1999
La toga rossa (with Francesco Misiano), Tropea, Milano, 1998
Giancarlo De Cataldo
Suburra (with Carlo Bonini), Einaudi, Torino, 2013
Io sono il Libanese, Einaudi, Torino, 2012
Il maestro il terrorista il terrone, Laterza, Bari, 2011
In giustizia, Rizzoli, Milano, 2011
I traditori, Einaudi, Torino, 2010
La forma della paura (with Mimmo Rafele), Einaudi, Torino, 2009
L'India, l'elefante e me, Rizzoli, Milano, 2008
Fuoco!, Edizioni Ambiente, Milano, 2007
Nelle mani giuste, Einaudi, Torino, 2007
Romanzo criminale, Einaudi, Torino, 2002
Teneri assassini, Einaudi, Torino, 2000
Onora il padre: quarto comandamento, Mondadori, Milano, 1999
Il padre e lo straniero, Manifestolibri, Roma, 1997
Terroni, Theoria, Roma, 1995
Contessa, Liber, Pavia, 1993
Minima criminalia: storie di carcerati e carcerieri, Manifestolibri, Roma, 1991
Nero come il cuore, Interno Giallo, Milano, 1989
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PROGRAM
14/12/2013 h 12:00: Jardin de l'Ange Presented by Giorgio Gosetti followed by Cinema Press Conference With: Federico Greco, Regina Orioli, Gianmarco Tognazzi (Nuit Americhèn), Riccardo Paoletti, Manuela Cacciamani (Neverlake), Enzo d’Alò, Maricla Affatato (Il flauto magico), Augusto Zucchi (La Voce) Palmares
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