The songs used in the documentary and sung by various artists are a tribute to different places in Naples. Carmela, the first track, sung by Mina, is accompanied by sacred images, archive photos and scenes of daily life, like that of a boy pretending to fire a gun as he streaks along Via delle Zite, a side street off Via dei Tribunali, on a moped without a helmet.
The video for Vesuvio, performed by Spakka-Neapolis 55, as well as featuring images of the famous volcano overlooking the city to which the song is dedicated, was filmed in the Big Cloister of the Certosa di San Martino.
Avion Travel and Misia perform Era de maggio, throwing together a concert in Largo Banchi Nuovi.
Comme facette mammeta is performed by Pietra Montercorvino in Palazzo dello Spagnolo, in the district of Sanità in the middle of the historic city centre. In the video we see women dancing on the distinct Neapolitan Baroque-style double flights of stairs seen from the inner courtyard.
The video for the sensual Maruzzella, a famous song originally performed by Renato Carosone in 1954 and sung on this occasion by Gennaro Cosmo Parlato, was filmed in Bagnoli.
Totò’s song Malafemmena is sung by Massimo Ranieri, the unfaithful husband of Lina Sastri, in one ofthe city’s palaces.
Don Raffaè, which was written by De André, is performed here by Peppe Barra, imprisoned in Castel dell’Ovo.
Nun te scurda, a 1995 track by Almamegretta, is performed here by the original artists along with Raiz, Pietra Montecorvino and M'Barka Ben Taleb, against the backdrop of Palazzo Giusso, which is home to L'Orientale University of Naples, and the Pappacoda Chapel opposite, in Largo San Giovanni Maggiore.
However, it is not the city itself that provides the backdrop for the two videos that follow, namely Passione, sung by James Senese, and Tammurriata Nera, performed by Peppe Barra, which were both filmed in indoor locations.
Inside the Pio Monte della Misericordia meanwhile, which is paid tribute to by shots of the Seven Works of Mercy by Caravaggio and other paintings it houses, Fausto Cigliano plays Catarì, with a sole guitar to accompany him.
The only video filmed outside Naples, Caravan Petrol, sees Fiorello singing in the Solfatara volcanic crater in Pozzuoli (NA).
The Piscina Mirabilis is a Roman archaeological site located in the Phlegraean Fields in Bacoli (the metropolitan area of Naples). Here Fiorenza Calogero, Daniela Fiorentino and Lorena Tamaggio perform the Canto delle lavandaie del Vomero, a popular Neapolitan song from the 12th/14th century.
Faccia Gialla, written and performed by Enzo Avitabile, shows us a historic courtyard of the city.
Dove sta Zazà is sung by Pietra Montecorvino and Max Casella in a busy market in the historic city centre.
Misia instead sings Indifferentemente in Palazzo Riario Sforza, which was built in the first half of the 18th century and is located in Via San Giovanni Maggiore Pignatelli in the middle of the historic city centre.
A nostalgic Napule è, by the unforgettable Pino Daniele, closes the documentary, while images of Naples in all its contradictions, beauty and immense passion, roll.
The songs used in the documentary and sung by various artists are a tribute to different places in Naples. Carmela, the first track, sung by Mina, is accompanied by sacred images, archive photos and scenes of daily life, like that of a boy pretending to fire a gun as he streaks along Via delle Zite, a side street off Via dei Tribunali, on a moped without a helmet.
The video for Vesuvio, performed by Spakka-Neapolis 55, as well as featuring images of the famous volcano overlooking the city to which the song is dedicated, was filmed in the Big Cloister of the Certosa di San Martino.
Avion Travel and Misia perform Era de maggio, throwing together a concert in Largo Banchi Nuovi.
Comme facette mammeta is performed by Pietra Montercorvino in Palazzo dello Spagnolo, in the district of Sanità in the middle of the historic city centre. In the video we see women dancing on the distinct Neapolitan Baroque-style double flights of stairs seen from the inner courtyard.
The video for the sensual Maruzzella, a famous song originally performed by Renato Carosone in 1954 and sung on this occasion by Gennaro Cosmo Parlato, was filmed in Bagnoli.
Totò’s song Malafemmena is sung by Massimo Ranieri, the unfaithful husband of Lina Sastri, in one ofthe city’s palaces.
Don Raffaè, which was written by De André, is performed here by Peppe Barra, imprisoned in Castel dell’Ovo.
Nun te scurda, a 1995 track by Almamegretta, is performed here by the original artists along with Raiz, Pietra Montecorvino and M'Barka Ben Taleb, against the backdrop of Palazzo Giusso, which is home to L'Orientale University of Naples, and the Pappacoda Chapel opposite, in Largo San Giovanni Maggiore.
However, it is not the city itself that provides the backdrop for the two videos that follow, namely Passione, sung by James Senese, and Tammurriata Nera, performed by Peppe Barra, which were both filmed in indoor locations.
Inside the Pio Monte della Misericordia meanwhile, which is paid tribute to by shots of the Seven Works of Mercy by Caravaggio and other paintings it houses, Fausto Cigliano plays Catarì, with a sole guitar to accompany him.
The only video filmed outside Naples, Caravan Petrol, sees Fiorello singing in the Solfatara volcanic crater in Pozzuoli (NA).
The Piscina Mirabilis is a Roman archaeological site located in the Phlegraean Fields in Bacoli (the metropolitan area of Naples). Here Fiorenza Calogero, Daniela Fiorentino and Lorena Tamaggio perform the Canto delle lavandaie del Vomero, a popular Neapolitan song from the 12th/14th century.
Faccia Gialla, written and performed by Enzo Avitabile, shows us a historic courtyard of the city.
Dove sta Zazà is sung by Pietra Montecorvino and Max Casella in a busy market in the historic city centre.
Misia instead sings Indifferentemente in Palazzo Riario Sforza, which was built in the first half of the 18th century and is located in Via San Giovanni Maggiore Pignatelli in the middle of the historic city centre.
A nostalgic Napule è, by the unforgettable Pino Daniele, closes the documentary, while images of Naples in all its contradictions, beauty and immense passion, roll.
Naples told through interviews, archive images, anecdotes, real people and, above all, their songs.
