DICIASETTE June 1983, 4.30 in the morning: before dawn the judicial ordeal of Enzo Tortora began. Arrested at the Hotel Plaza in Rome, accused of being at the center of a drug trafficking, dragged in a long, exhausting and unfortunate process, was then acquitted. Today, June 17, 2025, in the anniversary of that date, they were the first images of Portobello, dedicated to the dramatic history of the television conductor. Directed by Marco Bellocchio, the series It will arrive in 2026 on HBO Max.
Enzo Tortora, Portobello by Marco Bellocchio, the first photo of the TV series 42 years after the arrest of Enzo Tortora
The clip tells the moment when Enzo Tortora, played by Fabrizio Gifuni, It appears in handcuffs in front of a Roman carabinieri barracks. A scene that has remained impressed in the collective memory of our country, an emblem of the media pillory it had to undergo.
The 6 episodes series tells the story of the famous conductor of the television program Portobello – broadcast since 1977 for seven editions. He was accused by some collaborators of justice of being part of a Camorra Association dedicated to drug trafficking. Put in prison and tried for years, it was then definitively acquitted of any accusation.
Fabrizio Gifuni in a scene by Portobello by Marco Bellocchio. (Anna Camerlingo for Warner Bros. Discovery)
Fabrizio Gifuni is Enzo Tortora in Portobello. The rest of the cast
The series is the first original Italian production announced by Warner Bros. Discovery For the new HBO Max streaming platform. Fabrizio Gifuni, that for Bellocchio was Aldo Moro in External night, interprets Enzo Tortora. In the cast Lino Musella, Romana Maggiora Vergano, Barbora Bobulova, Carlotta Gamba, Alessandro Preziosi, Fausto Russo Alesi and Salvatore D’Onofrio.
The series was written by Marco Bellocchio, Stefano Bises, Giordana Mari and Peppe Fiore. The photograph is by Francesco Di Giacomo, the scenography of Andrea Castorina, the costumes of Daria Calvelli, the assembly of Francesca Calvelli, the music of Teho Teardo.
The new series of Marco Bellocchio
Portobello is the second TV series directed by Marco Bellocchio after External night (2022), in which he traces the seizure Moro and with which in 2023 he won David di Donatello for the best direction. The latest movie of the director de The fists in your pocket (1965), The hour of religion (2002) e Good morning, night (2003), is Kidnapped (2023).
In the cast of the film, inspired by the history of the Jewish child Edgardo Mortara and awarded with 7 silver tapes, also Fabrizio Gifuni in the role of‘Dominican inquisitor Pier Gaetano Feletti, who materially organizes the kidnapping
On June 17, day in memory of the victims of judicial errors, such as Tortora
A bill for the institution was presented to the Italian Parliament of the national day in memory of the victims of judicial errorson June 17, precisely with reference to the arrest of Enzo Tortora.
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