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Napoli-New York
"Salvatores and Favino skillfully transform a screenplay by Fellini and Pinelli" - LA RIVISTA DEL CINEMATOGRAFO
PLOT: The Italian city of Naples, devastated by World War II, lies in ruins. Orphaned children Carmine and Celestina survive life in the rubble-strewn streets by helping each other and, like so many others, they dream of going to America, where Celestina’s sister, who emigrated two years earlier, lives. One night, they stow away on a ship with an eccentric captain bound for New York and join hordes of Italian emigrants hoping for a better life in this strange new country.
Based on an original screenplay by Federico Fellini and Tullio Pinelli from the 1980s.
CAST: Pierfrancesco Favino, Francesco Di Leva, Tommaso Ragno, Aurora Quattrocchi, Sofia Essaidi, Nello Mascia, Emanuele Palumbo, Artem, Salvatore Striano, Virginia Apicella
YEAR: 2024
LENGTH: 124 min.
GENRE: Drama
AWARDS: • Best Visual Effects, David of the Youth: David di Donatello
• Nominated Best Supporting Actor (Pierfrancesco Favino), Best Adapted Screenplay (Gabriele Salvatores): David di Donatello; Best Film, Best Supporting Actor (Pierfrancesco Favino), Best Production Design, Best Casting Director: Nastro d'argento
RATING: USA: no rating; Australia: M
TIMES: St. Louis: April TBA, 7:30 p.m.
   
  Portland: April TBA, 7:00 p.m.
  Detroit: April TBA, 7:30 p.m.
 
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DIRECTOR NOTES:    
Gabriele Salvatores, born in 1950 in Naples, began his career in the theatre, co-founding the Teatro dell’Elfo in Milan. In 1983 he made his directorial film debut with Sogno di una notte d’estate and in 1992 won the Oscar award for Best Foreign Language Film for Mediterraneo.

Regarding his film, Salvatores said: "The fact that I came into possession of a story written by Federico Fellini and Tullio Pinelli, about which little or nothing was known, seemed wonderful to me. When I then read this approximately 80-page 'treatment-screenplay,' the wonder turned into desire and creative impetus" and "the story does not contain the surreal and dreamlike elements that characterized the Maestro’s later work, and it was written during a transitional period for Italian cinema: between neorealism, commedia all’italiana, and the first attempts at a more "fantastic" type of cinema."		 Salvatores
DISTRIBUTOR: RAI Cinema International Distribution, Piazza Adriana 12, Rome