Matteo Garrone’s 'Gomorra' will represent Italy at Oscar

Today 24th of September , Anica (National Association of Audiovisual and Multimedial Cinematographic Industries) has announced “Gomorra”, a Matteo Garrone’s movie,taken from the homonymous book of Roberto Saviano, as the Italy's rapresentative at Oscar in “Best Foreign Language Film” category. The book, published for the first time in 2006, is the first novel of RobertoSaviano and it had a lot of success ( 1 200 000 copies only in Italy). The main character in this book is the camorra and its organization, which borned in the Italian region Campania (first of all in Naples), and spread all overthe world, collaborating with other criminal organizations. Saviano accuses expicictly some of the biggest camorrist families, but this costs to him many death threats and a life under the police’s escort . Manypeople hope that on the 22nd of February 2009 (the Oscarprize-giving day) the movie will be awarded, so it will give a right credit to the director and to Saviano, and a help to spread in the world the truth of the mafia organization, and hopefully it'll help to fight it.