"Portobello", created by Marco Bellocchio, is a new Italy-produced crime thriller TV series, starring Fabrizio Gifuni as ‘Enzo Tortora’, with Lino Musella, Romana Maggiora Vergano, Barbora Bobulova, Carlotta Gamba, Alessandro Preziosi, Fausto Russo Alesi, and Salvatore D'Onofrio, streaming in 2026 on HBO Max:
“…in 1982, ‘Enzo Tortora’ is at the height of his success. He hosts ‘Portobello’, a show reaching 28 million viewers in prime time, where contestants try to make the parrot, the show's mascot, speak.
“Tortora is the king of 1980’s television, and the president of Italy, ‘Alessandro Pertini’, even appoints Tortora ‘Commander of the Republic’.
“During this time, the Irpinia earthquake delivers the final blow to the already fragile balance of the ‘New Organized Camorra’ criminal organization.
“‘Giovanni Pandico’, a trusted friend of crime boss ‘Raffaele Cutolo’ and a regular viewer of Portobello, decides to repent. Interrogated by the judges, he names an unexpected person: Enzo Tortora.
“When on June 17, 1983, the Italian police knock on Tortora's hotel room, he thinks it's a mistake, but it is only the beginning of an odyssey that will drag him from the heights to the abyss.”
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