Shooting is now underway on Napoli – New York, the new film directed by Gabriele Salvatores, who’s already back behind the cameras after bringing his previous film Casanova’s Return [+lire aussi :
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In the immediate post-war period, amidst the ruins of a Naples bowed by misery, little ones Carmine and Celestina try to survive as best they can, helping one another along the way. One night, they steal onto a ship headed for New York with the aim of living with Celestina’s sister who emigrated many years previously. The two children join the many other Italian emigrants seeking their fortune in America and arrive in an unknown metropolis which, after countless ups and downs, they’ll learn to call home.

Pierfrancesco Favino (recently seen at the Berlinale in The Last Night of Amore [+lire aussi :
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The film shoot will last twelve weeks, unfolding between Naples, Trieste, Rijeka and the Cinecittà studios. Photography is entrusted to Diego Indraccolo, set design to Rita Rabassini, costumes to Patrizia Chericoni, music to Federico De Robertis, and editing to Julien Panzarasa, with visual effects supervision falling to Victor Perez.

Napoli – New York is produced by Isabella Cocuzza and Arturo Paglia on behalf of Paco Cinematografica together with RAI Cinema, and with support from the FVG Film Commission – PromoTurismoFVG. The movie will be distributed in Italy by 01 Distribution.

As previously mentioned, the Oscar-winning director of Mediterraneo (1991) very recently presented Casanova’s Return, loosely based on Arthur Schnitzler’s story of the same name, and, before that, Comedians [+lire aussi :
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