It's all change in Rome. The new Pope is determined to bring radical reform, while a new centre-left government replaces its disgraced predecessor. And with crime eminence grise Samurai in jail, his protege attempts to establish himself as his successor. All the while he must reckon not only with a new generation of enterprising gangsters and racketeers - out to carve for themselves a slice of the profits and opportunities offered by the major public works planned - but also with the clever, beautiful, ambitious and newly elected politician Chiara Visoni, and his own heart.
Soon to be a Netflix Original Series. Suburra takes a deep dive into a politically and financially corrupt contemporary Italy, where a mighty local crime family, the Mafia, corrupt politicians, and new rabid criminal elements battle each other for control of a glittering prize--control over a multibillion dollar development twenty miles from the Italian capital. During the final days of Silvio Berlusconi's reign, a massive development proposal that will turn the depressed coastal settlement of Ostia into a gambling paradise, a Las Vegas on the Mediterranean, is winding its way through the Italian legislature thanks to the sponsorship of politicians in the pay of crime syndicates. It's business as usual in the Italian capital. Or so it seems. A vicious gang of local thugs loyal to nobody but themselves is insisting on a bigger cut than agreed upon. The Mafia and their political puppets aren't going to back down without a fight. Orchestral in its movement and sweeping in its ambition, Suburra is a compelling, provocative portrait of contemporary Rome--a city prey to pitiless criminal factions and political opportunism. Suburra has already been adapted into a critically acclaimed Italian film and soon to be a Netflix Original Series.
Rom: Hooligans, unbändiger Hass, Straßenschlachten – die Polizei im Kampf gegen einen Gegner außer Kontrolle. Nackte Gewalt gehört für eine eingeschworene Gruppe der „Celerini“, der italienischen Bereitschaftspolizei, zur Tagesordnung. Als eingefleischte Anhänger Mussolinis verabscheuen sie den laschen Staat, sind ständigen Auseinandersetzungen mit Ultras und Nazi-Skins ausgesetzt und müssen sich zudem wegen illegaler Übergriffe nach dem G8-Gipfel verantworten. Bonini erzählt vom Irrsinn auf der Straße, einer verdrängten Realität: von äußerster Brutalität, von Überfällen auf Migranten, vom Sturm auf eine Polizeikaserne und von wöchentlichen Schlachten zwischen Hooligans vor Roms Stadien. Bis nach dem Tod eines Fußballfans alles eskaliert.
