EXCLUSIVE: The primary two episodes of Italian maestro Marco Bellocchio’s new collection for HBO Max, Portobello, will unspool on the Venice Movie Pageant on Monday. We’ve acquired a primary take a look at the trailer – test it out above.
The collection is the primary authentic Italian manufacturing launched by Warner Bros Discovery for Max and can launch in 2026. It tells the story of “probably the most blatant errors of Italian justice” involving TV presenter Enzo Tortora, and is billed as a tragic story of the autumn of an harmless man.
In 1982, Tortora is on the peak of success. He hosts Portobello, which reaches 28 million viewers throughout primetime tv, all eagerly ready for the participant who will handle to get a phrase out of this system’s visitor of honor: a parrot.
Per the synopsis: Tortora is the King of Eighties tv; his program displays the nation and provides it consolation. Throughout these years, the earthquake in Irpinia delivered the ultimate blow to the delicate steadiness throughout the prison group Nuova Camorra Organizzata. Giovanni Pandico, a trusted subordinate of the mafia boss Raffaele Cutolo and devoted watcher of Portobello from his jail cell, decides to change into an informer. Whereas being questioned by the judges, he drops an sudden identify: Enzo Tortora. When, on 17 June 1983, the Carabinieri knock at his resort door, Tortora believes it’s a mistake. Nevertheless, it’s only the start of an ordeal that can drag him from riches to rags.”
The solid contains Fabrizio Gifuni as Enzo Tortora, Lino Musella, Barbora Bobulova, Romana Maggiora Vergano, Davide Mancini, Federica Fracassi, Carlotta Gamba, Giada Fortini, Massimiliano Rossi, Pier Giorgio Bellocchio, Gianfranco Gallo as Raffaele Cutolo, and in addition options Alessandro Preziosi.
The collection is produced by Our Movies (a Mediawan firm), and Kavac Movie, along with ARTE France, Rai Fiction and The Condominium Footage (a Fremantle group firm). It’s produced by Lorenzo Mieli and Mario Gianani for Our Movies, and by Simone Gattoni for Kavac Movie.
The collection was written by Marco Bellocchio, Stefano Bises, Giordana Mari and Peppe Fiore.
