26° TORINO FILM FESTIVAL
ITALIANA.DOC

NAPOLI PIAZZA MUNICIPIO

NAPOLI MUNICIPAL SQUARE
by Bruno Oliviero
Country: Italy, France
Year: 2008
Duration: 55'


A long journey through the few hundred square metres of piazza
Municipio which takes us through different historical eras and in
different social context through different languages. Within the square
there are many different places, which tell the story of the city but the
people who walk across the square also have a story to tell: the story
of our time, a story in which the present is at times too present and at
times forgotten.

“I’d like to have Gogol’s voice and be able to say, like he does of the
Nevskij Prospect in St Petersburg, piazza Municipio in Naples
‘is everything’. And like him, to start describing the details, to observe
this square under the microscope, to tell its story in a simple and linear
way, to describe the ravines and the recesses, the thousand and one
activities present on its stones, in its gardens, buildings, tunnels... but
I can’t. Perhaps because, by making a film about this square which is
everything, I didn’t want to make a film about a location. Rather a film
with a location, where I could record the fact that the results of the
minor daily actions of the people who live in a small portion of the
world, do, after all, create its history.”

Biography

film director

Bruno Oliviero

Bruno Oliviero (Naples, Italy, 1972) since April 2007 he has worked alongside Silvio Soldini, running a film/documentary school in Venice. During recent years he has developed a production project Lumière & Co. and Istituto Luce to make six films
directed by six documentary directors who are starting out. At present, he is making a new documentary and is writing a fiction film.

FILMOGRAFIA

Isaac a Ponticelli (1997), La guerra di Antonietta (2002), Un amore a Milano (2004), Odessa (coregia/codirector Leonardo Di Costanzo, 2006), Napoli Piazza Municipio (doc., 2008).

Cast

& Credits

regia, fotografia/director, cinematography Bruno Oliviero
montaggio/film editing Aurélie Ricard
musica/music Riccardo Veno
suono/sound Marcello Sannino, Marcello Anselmo
produttori/producers Nicola Giuliano, Luc Martin, Gousset Francesca Cima, Emmanuelle Fage
produzione,vendita all’estero/production, world sales Indigo Film
coproduzione/coproduction Point du Jour, Ananas

TFF

prizes

ITALIANA.DOC 2008

Best Italian Documentary

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