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After all, journo Roberto Saviano, author of the eye-opening eponymous Mafia expose on which the film is based, is now under police protection. Book has become a literary sensation in Italy, where it has sold over 1 million copies.
“As a producer I was very worried,” Procacci said. Nonetheless Procacci and Garrone decided they would shoot “Gomorra” right in the Camorra’s Neapolitan stomping grounds, a wasteland where wars between rival mob families erupt regularly, amid Europe’s highest density of drug dealers, strewn with sweatshops and toxic waste dumps.
“If they (the Camorra) had wanted to prevent us from shooting in those places, or to make our life difficult, it would have been impossible for us to make this movie,” Procacci said.
“But this film was not perceived by the Camorra as a threat, just like the book had not initially been considered a threat.”
Not being persona non grata allowed Garrone to shoot in the Camorra heartland and to tell their tales, using not just its true-to-life locations, but also the faces, the music, the ambiance and everything that belongs to these places, Procacci said.
“As a producer there was a daily preoccupation with what can happen on a set like that, and I think we were also very lucky.”
“Gomorra” opened wide in Italy on Friday, on 430 screens via 01 Distribuzione. The book has been published in 33 countries.
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