NOSTALGIA

Synopsis

After living 40 years abroad, Felice returns to Naples and discovers again places and codes of the city, facing a past that eats him away.

Biography

Mario Martone is a director of theater, cinema and opera. He created the Falso Movimento theatrical company in the 1980’s and then founded with Toni Servillo the Teatri Uniti company, through which he created his first independent films. Later, he became the director of Rome and Turin’s theaters. He has made two films set in the nineteenth century that attracted millions of viewers, staged operas in some of the world’s greatest theaters and continued to cross-breed artistic languages and experiment relentlessly. In 1999, he created the Teatro India in Rome. In 2018, the museo Madre in Naples dedicated a large personal exhibition to him. During the pandemic he adapted the Barbiere di Siviglia and the Traviata for television. He recently came back in front of a live audience with the staging Goliarda Sapienza’s Filo di mezzogiorno.

FILMOGRAPHY:
2021 - QUI RIDO IO, Feature
2019 - IL SINDACO DEL RIONE SANITÀ, Feature
2018 - CAPRI- REVOLUTION, Feature
2014 - IL GIOVANE FAVOLOSO, Feature
2010 - NOI CREDEVAMO, Feature
2004 - L'ODORE DEL SANGUE, Feature
1998 - TEATRO DI GUERRA, Feature
1997 - LA SALITA, Feature
1995 - L'AMORE MOLESTO, Feature
1993 - RASOI, Feature