Tough, gripping drama about a committed, principled priest taking on the Mafia and risking his life in a poverty-stricken parish in Naples.
Acting
Mimmo Borrelli's face does what dialogue can't.
Direction
Marra shoots Naples like a wound that won't close.
Director
Vincenzo Marra
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shot in Scampia, the real Naples district made infamous by Gomorrah. Locals were both extras and consultants.
Marra refused a traditional score, using only ambient sound — church bells, traffic, distant gunfire — to make the violence feel lived-in, not cinematic.
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