Napoli milionaria!, TV film directed by Luca Miniero, is based on the play by Eduardo De Filippo. First presented in the immediate post-war period at the San Carlo Theatre in Naples, the comedy demonstrates all the courage and greatness of its creator who confronted the wounded city with the moral consequences of the recent conflict.
The remake of De Filippo’s comedy stars Massimiliano Gallo and Vanessa Scalera as Gennaro and Amalia Jovine. Shot for the first time in its fictional setting, an alley in the centre of Forcella (Naples), it is the story of a disintegrating family that tries to rebuild only when teetering on the edge of disaster.
Amidst the dark, cramped spaces, with no sun or light, with crumbling walls and splintered wooden doors, the story’s characters, Gennaro, Amalia and their three children, are in continual dialogue with their neighbours in the alleyway. There are no innocents: everyone there is ready to sell their soul for happiness. Faust in vicolo Scassacocchi.
Director Luca Miniero uses this setting to tell the story of a family and the wounded, desperate humanity that surrounds it where mercy has been trampled upon by hunger. This is where the Jovine family lives, in the moving search for their identity, hanging on to the hope that “it will all be better once the night is past”.
Napoli milionaria!, TV film directed by Luca Miniero, is based on the play by Eduardo De Filippo. First presented in the immediate post-war period at the San Carlo Theatre in Naples, the comedy demonstrates all the courage and greatness of its creator who confronted the wounded city with the moral consequences of the recent conflict.
The remake of De Filippo’s comedy stars Massimiliano Gallo and Vanessa Scalera as Gennaro and Amalia Jovine. Shot for the first time in its fictional setting, an alley in the centre of Forcella (Naples), it is the story of a disintegrating family that tries to rebuild only when teetering on the edge of disaster.
Amidst the dark, cramped spaces, with no sun or light, with crumbling walls and splintered wooden doors, the story’s characters, Gennaro, Amalia and their three children, are in continual dialogue with their neighbours in the alleyway. There are no innocents: everyone there is ready to sell their soul for happiness. Faust in vicolo Scassacocchi.
Director Luca Miniero uses this setting to tell the story of a family and the wounded, desperate humanity that surrounds it where mercy has been trampled upon by hunger. This is where the Jovine family lives, in the moving search for their identity, hanging on to the hope that “it will all be better once the night is past”.
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Massimiliano Gallo, Vanessa Scalera
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Massimiliano Gallo, Vanessa Scalera
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Massimiliano Gallo, Vanessa Scalera, Jacopo Cullin
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Vanessa Scalera
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Massimiliano Gallo, Andrea Solimena
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Massimiliano Gallo, Vanessa Scalera, Carolina Rapillo, Vincenzo Nemolato, Nunzia Schiano, Andrea Solimena, Jacopo Cullin, Marcello Romolo
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Vincenzo Nemolato, Massimiliano Gallo, Carolina Rapillo
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Vanessa Scalera, Andrea Solimena
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Vanessa Scalera, Michele Venitucci
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Massimiliano Gallo
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Vincenzo Nemolato, Carolina Rapillo
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Massimiliano Gallo
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Vanessa Scalera
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Vanessa Scalera, Michele Venitucci
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Carolina Rapillo, Massimiliano Gallo
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Carolina Rapillo, Vanessa Scalera
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Vanessa Scalera
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Massimiliano Gallo
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Vanessa Scalera
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Nunzia Schiano
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Massimiliano Gallo
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Vanessa Scalera
Picomedia, Rai Fiction
Napoli milionaria! is a very contemporary story about the power of money and its ability to corrupt souls. Gennaro and Amalia Jovine and their three children experience it first-hand. Gennaro, a former tram driver, is forced to play dead to cover up the dealings of his wife who scrapes a living on the black market in cahoots with Errico Settebellizze. They try to survive the poverty that the city has fallen into in the last year of the war. Then comes peace, the abundance of American goods, the hunger of the Neapolitans and money, lots of money. Gennaro, captured by the retreating Nazis, disappears from Amalia’s life while she is dazzled by all the wealth at hand. When he unexpectedly returns, the family is dissolved and “lost.”
