MELBOURNE, Friday, 7 August 2009 – Frighteningly real, uncompromising in its vision and powerfully cinematic, Madman proudly presents the DVD release of GOMORRAH (available September 23, 2009 – $34.95srp).

Power, Money and Blood – these are the ‘values’ that the residents of Italy’s Campania region confront daily. They have little choice, and are forced to obey the mafia-enforced rules of the ‘System’, the Camorra. GOMORRAH recounts five true stories – the accountant; the apprentice; the new blood; the tailor, and the hotheads – that each detail the intricate control the Camorra have over day-to-day life in Southern Italy.

Based on Roberto Saviano’s best-selling exposé of the Naples Mafia, GOMORRAH is a towering achievement. Saviano’s novel was so close to the truth of life in under mafia rule in Naples that the Camorra put a hit out on the author, forcing him into hiding. He remains under 24-hour surveillance. The film was awarded the Grand Prize of the Cannes Film Festival in 2008, and has been garnering rave reviews and box office success since its Australian theatrical release in May, 2009.

GOMORRAH DVD bonus features include an interview with director Matteo Garrone from ABC1’s AT THE MOVIES, Deleted Scenes, 5 STORIES: a 60-minute making-of documentary, an interview with author Roberto Saviano, cast interviews and a theatrical trailer.

**** “… This is a great reforming movie straight from the mouth of hell.” SYDNEY MORNING HERALD

***** “Great films change the way we think about cinema. A masterpiece can alter our perception of life. Matteo Garrone’s startling film…is one of these rare movies” THE TIMES (UK)