(ANSA) - VENICE, 07 SEPT - Eduardo Scarpetta and his extended tribe family, far from well-thinking morality, an almost mythological figure of Neapolitan theater and its mysteries.
"I thought it was time to face it", says Mario Martone who had a warm welcome for Quirido io, competing in Venice 78, a story with a cast of exceptional actors, led by Toni Servillo, of the life and art of the great playwright who made the whole Naples laugh with Felice Sciosciammocca and was the forefather of a great dynasty with the De Filippo brothers never legitimately recognized.
"Scarpetta was a genius of the theater and an amoral patriarch - continues the director - driven by an incredible hunger for social redemption, a revenge that prompts him to write Qui Rido Io on his villa in Posillipo. A primordial man who had children with his wife Rosa, with her sister, with the niece of his wife and while not recognizing them, makes them all study, males and females, and they all become actors in her company, or genidrammaturghi like Eduardo De Filippo ". "The film aims to tell the mystery of Scarpetta but also the creative force of Naples at the end of the 19th century, a city where, for example, cinema was born. In the film there is a shot shot in Naples in 1985 by the Lumiere brothers and where ElviraNotari worked, who was the first director ever in Italy and one of the premieres in the history of world cinema.Scarpetta moves into this setting, devouring Pulcinella and the SanCarlino theater, to become the acclaimed actor and playwright of his city. A man who devours life like the theater, with scattered children which seems to give a very powerful seed of creativity if you do not have genius ", continues the director.
The film, produced by Indigo Film with Rai Cinema in co-production with Tornasol, will be in cinemas with 01 from 9 September.
"This film for me and Mario means a lot of our life, we couldn't not do it", underlines Servillo. "I imagined this life-devouring chieftain as an animal that hunts its prey in the hunting area: women, itesti, the theater, the tours, everything is devoured by EduardoScarpetta in a continuous exchange between life and stage".
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