It will be the classic of and with Vittorio De Sica The gold of Naples (1954), with Eduardo De Filippo, Sophia Loren, Silvana Mangano, Paolo Stoppa And Totothe film by Pre-opening Of Tuesday 27 August of the81st International Film Festival from the Venice Biennialon the occasion of 50 years since the death of Vittorio De Sica and gods 70 years of the film.
The gold of Napleswhich is part of the program Venice Classics of the81. Show (August 28-September 7), will be presented on August 27 in Darsena Hall to the Lido of Venice, at 9.00 pm, in world premiere in the version 4K digitally restored edited by Cinecittà on the initiative of Filmauro Srl Of Aurelio and Luigi De Laurentiis, starting from the 35mm scene negative and the 35mm mono optical column negative, and with the artistic supervision of Andrea De Sica.
The gold of Naples, Divided into 6 episodes taken from the collection of short stories of the same name by Giuseppe Marottawritten together with the director by Cesare Zavattini and produced by Carlo Ponti And Dino De Laurentiistells some of the many faces of Naples through the chapters: The guy, Pizzas on credit, The funeral, The players, Teresa And The professor. Presented in competition at Cannes in 1955, he was awarded the Silver ribbons for best actress a Silvana Mangano and for best actor a Paolo Stoppa and selected from among 100 Italian films to save.
“The gold of Naples – he remembered Martin Scorsese – in New York it was on television at the time, and everyone in the neighborhood watched it every time and loved it very much. […] It’s a film that offers a wonderful range of comedic styles and incorporates something I really appreciate in Italian cinema: the way it moves effortlessly between comedy and tragedy” (My Voyage to ItalyMartin Scorsese, 1999).
On The gold of Naples Carlo Lizzani wrote: “De Sica […] from Marotta’s beautiful book he will make a film of high quality, also full of inspired pages and moments worthy of the best De Sica. The child’s funeral (cut in the version presented to the public) and that jewel which is the card game between De Sica himself as an actor and the child, could worthily figure in an anthology of Italian cinema.” (History of Italian cinemaParenti, Florence, 1961).
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L’81st International Film Festival from the Venice Biennial will be held at the Lido from August 28 to September 7, 2024directed by Alberto Barbera.
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