Nottefonda

Giuseppe Miale Di Mauro Italy 2024 86 min

Uma Thurman
24 October 21:15 Sala Petrassi Pub Acc

Festa del cinema

Synopsis

A forty-year-old father, Ciro, and his thirteen-year-old son, Luigi, drive through the eastern outskirts of Naples every night, in search of the man who killed Flavia, their beloved wife and mother. Luigi has been forced to grow up quickly, staying by the side of his drug-addict father in an attempt to prevent his final downfall. The destiny of this odyssey of mourning has already been marked and, over the course of one final night, they will have to face it.

COMMENTARY
For his big-screen debut, Giuseppe Miale Di Mauro, a founding member of NEST — the theatre company in San Giovanni a Teduccio that works with young people in one of the most deprived neighbourhoods on the outskirts of Naples — takes his inspiration from his novel La strada degli americani, to tell a story of anger and redemption.

DIRECTOR'S STATEMENT
I have had this story inside me for so long. I wrote the novel a few years ago. Then I understood that the book could become a sort of container, in to which I could collect the pieces to construct a new story. I focused on telling the story of a desperate man, in constant struggle with his incurable wound. A man who had everything and was suddenly left with nothing.

Director

Giuseppe Miale Di Mauro

Author, actor, playwright and director Giuseppe Miale di Mauro was one of the protagonists of the stage adaptation of Gomorra. He worked as assistant director on Mario Martone’s staging of Eduardo De Filippo’s Il sindaco del rione Sanità. In addition to adapting and directing important plays, such as Miseria e nobiltà by Scarpetta, he has written the novels L’ultima volta che mi sono emozionato and La strada degli americani, which served as the inspiration for his directorial film debut.

Cast and Crew

Screenplay:
Giuseppe Miale Di Mauro, Bruno Oliviero, Francesco Di Leva (dal romanzo / based on the novel La strada degli americani di / by Giuseppe Miale di Mauro)
Cinematography:
Michele D’Attanasio
Editing:
Cecilia Zanuso
Production Design:
Carmine Guarino
Costume Designer:
Giovanna Napolitano
Music:
Pivio & Aldo De Scalzi
Sound:
Simone Costantino
Producer:
Maria Carolina Terzi, Luciano Stella, Carlo Stella, Lorenza Stella
Production:
Mad Entertainment, Rai Cinema
Co-production:
Leocadia
Make Up:
RAFFAELA DI NAPOLI
Special Effects:
MAD ENTERTAINMENT
International Press Office:
PUNTO & VIRGOLA
Cast:
Francesco Di Leva, Mario Di Leva, Adriano Pantaleo, Giuseppe Gaudino, Dora Romano, Valeria Colombo, Chiara Celotto

Festa del cinema

Screening Schedule (public)

24/10
21:15
Sala Petrassi
26/10
18:30
Giulio Cesare - sala 1