Vito e gli altri
10 May 2024 | 15:00
Cinema Roma
In the presence of Alessandro Comodin
On a New Year’s Eve, a man suddenly goes mad for no reason and massacres his family, killing his wife and one of his two sons and sparing the other, 12-year-old Vito, who is entrusted to an aunt and her husband, a fireworks maker. Vito e gli altri is not only a film denouncing how the Camorra is an integral part of social life, as much as it is a work that also tells us how the world of audiovisuals is enjoyed by kids. We are thus faced with a meta-cinematographic approach that nevertheless tends to rediscover and emphasise how much cinema can still be of value to the people. (Alessandro Aniballi, Quinlan.it)
Production: Società Cooperativa Dionisio A.R.L.
Cast: Antonio Farak, Guido Piccoli, Vera Matania, Sergio Marra, Rosaria De Cicco, Massimo Antacido, Gino Apicella, Vittorio Baratti, Giovanni Bruno, Pasquale Amore, Giuseppina Fusco, Nando Triola, Enzuccio La Motta, Mario Lenti, Pina Leone, Antonio Iaccarino, Alfredo Tassiero
Regia di Antonio Capuano
88'
Italy
88
(Naples, 1940) worked as a set designer at the Centro Rai in Naples. His debut feature Vito e gli altri (1991), selected and awarded at the Venice Critics’ Week and Silver Ribbon for best first-time director, began what would be considered the “new wave” of Neapolitan cinema in the 1990s. He has returned to the Venice Film Festival several times, participating in Competition with Pianese Nunzio 14 Anni a Maggio (1997), Luna rossa (2001) and the collective film I vesuviani (1998); at Venice Days with L’amore buio (2010) and again at Critics’ Week with Bagnoli Jungle (2015). At the Locarno Film Festival, on the other hand, Polvere di Napoli (2000) and La guerra di Mario (2005) were presented, while his latest work, Il buco in testa, shown at the Turin Film Festival, is from 2020.