Country: Italy
Year: 2011
Duration: 76'


The year is 2020. Naples is the safest, cleanest and most modern city on Earth, thanks to its new mayor, Nicolino Amore, who was born in dire poverty but climbed the social ladder. In the beginning, he only tries to enjoy the good life, but when he realizes that he is betraying his people he decides to take on and solve the major problem which has always afflicted his city, drug trafficking, by following the advice of a powerful and repentant “godmother”: legalize drugs.

 

“Despite the fact that it’s a parody and a flight of fantasy, the film is set up like a true documentary. I was inspired by the Anglo-Saxon historical and scientific documentaries and all their stylistic features: the narrating voice, the combination of archival and amateur images, the use of photographs, interviews with normal people and authorities. I think that comedy is able to conduct a profound analysis of burning issues like crime or drug trafficking, but it also creates an entertaining product that is able to involve a large number of spectators.”

Biography

film director

Enrico Caria

Enrico Caria (Rome, Italy, 1957) has collaborated as a cartoonist with various newspapers and magazines, such as “la Repubblica,” “Il Mattino,” “Paese Sera,” “Cuore,” “il manifesto” and “Il Fatto Quotidiano.” He has published two books: Bandidos, vivere e morire al di sopra dei propri mezzi (1995) and L’uomo che cambiava idea (2006). He debuted as a screenwriter in 1991, collaborating with the TV series Un commissario a Roma, and was also a writer and correspondent for the TV program Le iene. He has written and directed numerous feature-length films, including 17, ovvero l’incredibile e triste storia del cinico Rudy Caino (1992), Carogne - Ciro and Me (1995) and Blek Giek (2001), as well as the docufiction about the camorra Vedi Napoli e poi muori (2006).

FILMOGRAFIA

filmografia/filmography

Lucifero si è fermato a Pizzo (mm, 1990), 17, ovvero: l’incredibile e triste storia del cinico Rudy Caino (1992), Carogne - Ciro and Me (1995), Blek Jack, morti e contenti (cm, 1999), Blek Giek (2001), Vedi Napoli e poi muori (doc., 2006), L’era legale (2011).

Cast

& Credits

regia, sceneggiatura/director, screenplay

Enrico Caria

fotografia/cinematography

Giuseppe Schifani

montaggio/film editing

Roberto Martucci

costumi/costume design

Francesca Balzano

musica/music

Pivio & De Scalzi

suono/sound

Francesco Sabez

interpreti e personaggi/cast and characters

Patrizio Rispo (il sindaco/Mayor Nicolino Amore), Cristina Donadio (Idra Duarte), Rita Corrado (Agata Russo), Pietro De Silva (l’investigatore/Detective Tony Lenza), Isabella Rossellini (se stessa/Herself), Renzo Arbore (se stesso/Himself)

produttori/producers

Renzo Rossellini, Eduardo Rumolo, Enrico Caria

produzione/production

Rossellini film & tv

distribuzione/distribution

Bolero Film

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