{"id":2083534,"date":"2025-10-11T09:18:14","date_gmt":"2025-10-11T09:18:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2083534"},"modified":"2025-10-11T09:18:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-11T09:18:14","slug":"marco-bellocchio-brings-the-fall-of-enzo-tortora-to-the-screen-in-hbo-maxs-portobello","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/marco-bellocchio-brings-the-fall-of-enzo-tortora-to-the-screen-in-hbo-maxs-portobello\/","title":{"rendered":"Marco Bellocchio Brings the Fall of Enzo Tortora to the Screen in HBO Max\u2019s \u2018Portobello\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div role=\"presentation\">For <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt35663349\/\">Portobello<\/a>, its first Italian original production, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0754095\/\">HBO Max<\/a> is taking us back to 1980s Italy and one of the most infamous miscarriages of justice in the country\u2019s history. Legendary Italian auteur <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0069166\/\">Marco Bellocchio<\/a> (<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt7736478\/\">The Traitor,<\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1629377\/\">Kidnapped<\/a>) directed and co-wrote the six-episode series, which tells the story of the downfall and imprisonment of popular TV host <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0869029\/\">Enzo Tortora<\/a>, an innocent man.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c1982. Enzo Tortora is at the height of his success,\u201d reads a synopsis for the show, whose first two episodes world premiered at the Venice Film Festival before screening at the BFI London Film Festival on Saturday afternoon. \u201cHe hosts <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt35663349\/\">Portobello<\/a>, a show reaching 28 million viewers in prime time, where contestants try to make the parrot, the show\u2019s mascot, speak. Tortora is the king of 1980s television, and the president of Italy, Alessandro Pertini, even appoints Tortora <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm13345445\/\">Commander<\/a> of the Republic. During this time, the Irpinia earthquake delivers&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For Portobello, its first Italian original production, HBO Max is taking us back to 1980s Italy and one of the most infamous miscarriages of justice in the country\u2019s history. Legendary Italian auteur Marco Bellocchio (The Traitor, Kidnapped) directed and co-wrote the six-episode series, which tells the story of the downfall and imprisonment of popular TV [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2083535,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2083534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Marco-Bellocchio-Brings-the-Fall-of-Enzo-Tortora-to-the.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2083534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2083534"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2083534\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2083536,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2083534\/revisions\/2083536"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2083535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2083534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2083534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2083534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}