{"id":60044,"date":"2026-04-08T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.omnesmag.com\/?p=60044"},"modified":"2026-04-06T13:38:21","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T11:38:21","slug":"the-mafia-and-the-tv-presenter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omnesmag.com\/en\/actualidad\/cultura\/la-mafia-y-el-presentador-de-tv\/","title":{"rendered":"The mafia and the TV presenter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Enzo Tortora (1928-1988) was an Italian journalist who hosted the television program <em>Portobello<\/em> in 1977. Millions of households in Italy watched his entertainment show every night, which also organized auctions and social initiatives for charity. From prison, many inmates also watched his program, among them Giovanni Pandico and Pasquale Barra, mafiosi belonging to the New Camorra led by Raffaele Cutolo. In June 1983, Enzo Tortora was arrested, accused of being part of the New Camorra and promoting drug trafficking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A solid socio-judicial biographical miniseries directed by Marco Bellocchio, also the author of <em>Exterior night<\/em> (2022), about the kidnapping of politician Aldo Moro. Through six episodes, Bellocchio recounts the judicial ordeal Enzo Tortora endured from his arrest to his declaration of innocence in 1987. Previously, he narrates the beginnings of the program <em>Portobello<\/em>, The show's meteoric rise in the ratings and its impact on the lives of Italians allows the viewer to become familiar with Tortora's character: a charismatic showbiz type, neither saintly nor cynical, concerned about the lower classes, but with no other horizon than his show's variety shows.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Immersion in the 20th century<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Truly, the series is a rigorous immersion in the Italy of the 1970s and 1980s; a Catholic but superstitious Italy, dominated by the Mafia, with Christian democracy winning without convincing and with a bureaucratic chaos that ended up being paid by the poorest. Added to this is the rigorous narration of the trial against Enzo Tortora. Bellocchio achieves an adequate balance between the progress of the judicial process, the way Tortora experiences it and the reaction of his relatives and colleagues in the <em>Portobello<\/em>, The drama is a correct counterpoint to the drama.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In this sense, what is narrated seems true because of the tone of the narration, dramatic, but without sentimentalism, nor violent or sensationalist; each new evidence and accusation against Tortora even provokes laughter because of the ridiculousness of the inventions, leaving the viewer perplexed by the height of imagination to incriminate this popular journalist.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"omnes-block-ficha-vertical\">\n\t<div class=\"content\">\n\t\t<h2>Series<\/h2>\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.omnesmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Portobello_HBO_Max.jpeg\" \/>\n\t\t<div class=\"v\"><strong>Title<\/strong>Portobello<\/div><div class=\"v\"><strong>Address<\/strong>Marco Bellocchio<\/div><div class=\"v\"><strong>Distribution<\/strong>Fabricio Gifuni, Enzo Tortora, Barbora Bobulo- va, Anna Tortora<\/div><div class=\"v\"><strong>Platform<\/strong>: HBO Max<\/div>\t<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Enzo Tortora (1928-1988) fue un periodista italiano que dirigi\u00f3 el programa de televisi\u00f3n Portobello en 1977. Millones de hogares en Italia visualizaban por las noches su espect\u00e1culo de entretenimiento, que adem\u00e1s organizaba subastas e iniciativas sociales con fines ben\u00e9ficos. Desde la c\u00e1rcel, tambi\u00e9n numerosos reclusos ve\u00edan su programa; entre ellos, Giovanni Pandico y Pasquale Barra, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2425,"featured_media":60055,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[36,56,39],"tags":[1093],"class_list":["post-60044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-actualidad","category-cine","category-cultura","tag-series"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>La mafia y el presentador de TV<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"La miniserie de Bellocchio retrata el caso del periodista Enzo Tortora y su proceso judicial en la Italia de los a\u00f1os 80 marcado por la mafia.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" 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