Fortapasc is Neapolitan slang for Fort Apache, a name ruefully applied to Torre Annunziata, a small down-at-heel town near Naples which in the 80s was controlled, overtly and covertly, by the Camorra, and a constant battleground in their turf wars. Into this world came Giancarlo Siani, a young newspaper stringer for the Naples paper Il Mondiale, seeking stories where he could, going to lengths no cynical hard-bitten journalist would to get at the truth. With his bright green golf-buggy type motor, his glasses and his joke-stickered old typewriter, he's an almost geeky, unlikely hero, but when he gets a whiff of multiple corruption in local government, law enforcement and industry, desire for justice and being a journalist as opposed to those who just write what they know is safe, inevitably leads him into danger.
Director:
Marco Risi
Year:
2009
Country:
Itl
Cast:
Libero De Rienzo, Valentina Lodovini, Michele Riondino
Classification:
M
Certification:
VL