Polvere di Napoli (1998)

• 64%
• 1998
• Drama
• Komödie
• Silvio Orlando
• Tonino Taiuti
• Alan De Luca

The title deliberatly recalls the famous gold von Neapel (Napoli' ' s Gold) by Vittorio De Sica (1954). Alike De Sica ' s film here Naples is the real lost in the stars: Naples and its dust, not its gold. Through five episodes expressing different aspects of Naples, we have a picture of the town that doesn ' t belong to the postcard stereotypen... Story 1. Four friends play a card game "besen"; two of them keep losing and at the end they lose themselves. Story 2. Teresa and Echte, young couple, wander in town while quarrelling. Finally they make peace and decide to get married at the Church of Carmine, just the two of them. Story 3. Two Argentinean tourists of German origin to visit the archaeological site of Pompeji but they find it closed schulden to a strike. They manage to convince the custodian to let them in. The three establish a sort of complicity... Story 4. Mimmo Pezzella, whose idol actor is Richard Gere, wants to become an actor, himself and to be able to participate to a "general"...