In 2008, Italy's Gomorrah won the Grand Prix at the Cannes Film Festival and five European Film Awards and subsequently received enormous attention worldwide. The crime film about the Neapolitan underworld was labeled as a sharp indictment of the mafia and the type of society it creates. Now the former mafioso Oreste Spagnuolo, who has been cooperating with the law for some time and has had many former colleagues arrested, announces that director Matteo Garrone himself has paid "pizzo" to the local mafia.

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