25/01/2024 - The debut feature from Giuseppe Miale Di Mauro, produced by Mad Entertainment with Rai Cinema, tells the story of a man looking for his wife’s murderer

Filming has begun in Naples on Nottefonda, the debut feature from Giuseppe Miale Di Mauro freely adapted from his own novel La strada degli americani (Frassinelli). Cast in the film are Francesco Di Leva (winner of the 2023 David di Donatello award for his role in Nostalgia [+see also:
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Written by the director together with Bruno Oliviero and Francesco Di Leva, Nottefonda tells the story of Ciro, a man in disarray following the death of his wife. He wants to find whoever ran her over and killed her on the road at night. Every night. In this quest he has lost himself, any sense of time and the possibility of leading a normal life with his son Luigi, aged 13, a boy forced to grow up quickly to keep his father from descending into hell. Also in the cast are Adriano Pantaleo (Mixed By Erry [+see also:
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Nottefonda was born from the experience and the encounter between  Francesco Di Leva and Giuseppe Miale Di Mauro, who are among the founders of NEST, the San Giovanni theatre in Teduccio born ten years ago in the old gym of an abandoned school, in one of the most difficult neighbourhoods on the outskirts of Naples, thanks to the efforts of a group of Neapolitan artists and technicians who have given life to a cultural and social operation aimed largely at young people. A reality central to Naples-based production company Mad Entertainment who is producing the film with Rai Cinema in collaboration with Leocadia, with producers Maria Carolina Terzi, Luciano Stella, and Carlo and Lorenza Stella. 

Mad Entertainment, who won the EFA award for Best Animated Film in 2014 with The Art of Happiness [+see also:
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(Translated from Italian)