“Shame, thief, you are a criminal, cursed, cowardly. An Enzo declaration! But is it all true? The contact with the Camorra was there? Can it be an error Enzo? Do you have to die in prison ”.
On June 17, 1983 Enzo Tortora was arrested and right on the day of the anniversary, here are the first images of Portobello, the new series of Marco Bellocchiodedicated to the dramatic story of the television conductor, arriving in 2026 on Hbomax.
The extract tells the dramatic and significant moment in which Enzo Tortora, played by Fabrizio Gifuni, are put in handcuffs in a barracks of the Roman carabinieri. It is the moment when, handcuffed, it is surrounded by the crowd of photographers and journalists to whom the television conductor launches a premonitory phrase by inviting the representatives of the printed paper to be careful what they do: ” You Italian journalists you have to be very careful of this story. Look at you all well, look at it all right ”. And sliding between the crowd, he launches more than one, eloquent, glance at the mobile direction of the ” his ” Rai who takes him back at a distance.
Enzo Tortora, was unjustly accused by some prisoners of being at the center of drug trafficking managed by the Neapolitan Camorra: arrested, imprisoned and dragged into a long trial, he was completely acquitted only after years of judicial ordeal.
The awaited series is the first original Italian production announced by Warner Bros. Discovery for the new Streaming Hbomax platform is an Our Films production, a company of the Mediawan group, and Kavac Film, in co -production with Arte France and in collaboration with The Apartment Pictures, a Fremantle group company. It is produced by Lorenzo Mieli and Mario Gianani for Our Films and Simone Gattoni for Kavac Film.
In the cast of the Fabrizio Gifuni series, in the role of Enzo TortoraLino Musella, Romana Maggiora Vergano, Barbora Bobulova, Carlotta Gamba, Alessandro Preziosi, Fausto Russo Alesi and Salvatore D’Onofrio. The series was written by Marco Bellocchio, Stefano Bises, Giordana Mari and Peppe Fiore. The photograph is by Francesco Di Giacomo, the scenography of Andrea Castorina, the costumes of Daria Calvelli, the assembly of Francesca Calvelli, the music of Teho Teardo.
June 17 is also the day when the discussed proposal of the Tortora law aims to establish a national day in memory of the victims of judicial errors. Just last May 7, the Chamber’s Chamber voted for the postponement to the Commission: not only a new parliamentary passage, they accused the oppositions on that occasion, but of the desire to “sink” the measure. The text, in the original formulation developed by Italy Viva, aims to establish the national day in memory of the victims of judicial errors making it coincide with the day on which Enzo Tortora was arrested in 1983. And on the day of the postpone The choice of the majority not to proceed with the exam in the classroom and ask for extra times for further study wrote a new chapter of an already accidental process.