Gomorrah

‘They have this ferocious loyalty’: Trudie Styler on the people of Naples

Her new documentary, Posso Entrare? An Ode to Naples, explores the lives of residents in mafia-ridden backstreets

Angela Giuffrida in Rome

24, Oct, 2023 @4:15 PM

‘My life in the mafia’s shadow’: Italy’s most hunted author, Roberto Saviano

Since 2006, the acclaimed writer has lived in fear for his life, following publication of his exposé on the criminal gangs. The Observer takes a trip back to Naples with him and his minders

Lorenzo Tondo

16, Oct, 2021 @2:00 PM

On my radar: Roberto Saviano’s cultural highlights

The investigative journalist and author of Gomorrah on the delights of Mozart, the restorative tranquility of Andalusia and a lifelong love of Subbuteo

Roberto Saviano

25, Sep, 2021 @5:00 PM

‘I’m still alive’: Gomorrah author hails court victory over mafia threats

Roberto Saviano says that a court has shown that the crime clans – whose threats forced him to live with a bodyguard – are not invincible

Ed Vulliamy

29, May, 2021 @3:00 PM

How Stephen King’s gun essay found new life in ‘Gomorrah’

The horror writer agrees to let an editor whose cousin was shot and killed by Camorra gangs print his work on gun violence

Lorenzo Tondo in Palermo

17, Jan, 2021 @7:00 AM

'They're demolishing a piece of my life': Scampia residents mourn fall of 'Gomorrah'

Sail-shaped towers in Naples were for years a drugs hotspot and scene of mafia wars

Lorenzo Tondo in Naples

20, Feb, 2020 @4:19 PM

The 100 best films of the 21st century

Gangsters, superheroes, schoolkids, lovers, slaves, peasants, techies, Tenenbaums and freefalling astronauts – they’re all here in our countdown of cinema’s best movies since 2000

Peter Bradshaw, Cath Clarke, Andrew Pulver and Catherine Shoard

13, Sep, 2019 @5:00 AM

Goodbye to Gomorrah: the end of Italy's most notorious housing estate

Famous as the setting for the hit Italian film and TV series Gomorrah, the towers of Le Vele became synonymous with poverty and organised crime – until residents took charge

Sophia Seymour with photographs by Roberto Salomone

17, May, 2019 @5:00 AM

'These stories are our defence against organised crime': the mafia on film

Anti-mafia journalist and scriptwriter Roberto Saviano dissects the complexities of how Italian film-makers portray the Cosa Nostra on screen

Roberto Saviano

14, Aug, 2018 @6:00 AM

Cage fights, chat shows, train platforms: the strangest places films have found their stars

Looking to cast a new film sensation? Then visit a prison, look at Instagram or head to a station. Because that’s where these future stars were hanging out

Graeme Virtue

08, Nov, 2017 @11:26 AM

Gomorrah: the second coming of The Sopranos lands with a bang

The show inspired by Roberto Saviano’s book and subsequent film isn’t for the faint-hearted as it pulls back the curtain on the contemporary Cosa Nostra

Brian Moylan

24, Aug, 2016 @4:03 PM