SPECIAL EVENT – Turin debut for Francesco Patierno’s doc Naples 44, with the author attending.

Following the success it garnered at the latest Festa del Cinema in Rome, the National Cinema Museum is happy to host the Turin premiere of Francesco Patierno’s doc Naples ’44 at the Cinema Massimo.

On this occasion, the director Francesco Patierno will present his film to the public at the Screen Two theatre in the Cinema Massimo, on Thursday 15 December at 8.30 p.m. A meeting/debate will follow the screening. Admission 7.50/5.00 euro.

The film, which was in competition at the Festa del Cinema in Rome, describes Naples under occupation in 1944, through the words of young English officer Norman Lewis (Naples 44) and archive footage, portraying the Neapolitans continually seeking for something in order to survive the tragic aspects of war. Produced by Dazzle Communication with Rai Cinema.

Francesco Patierno

Naples ‘44

(Italy 2016, 80’)

In 1943 a young English officer, Norman Lewis, entered a Naples which was destroyed and stricken by the war with the United States Fifth Army. Lewis was immediately struck by the vibrant and complex social magma of a city that managed, in the most incredible ways, to invent life for itself every day out of nothing, and took notes on certain diaries about everything he experienced during the year he stayed there. The notes that Lewis wrote over that period then ended up by forming NAPLES '44. The film drawn from this book imagines the English officer, who became an established writer following the war, returning several years later to the city that seduced and conquered him, for a visionary amarcord made up of many flashbacks between the places Lewis retraces after so long in the present and the stories out of the past which such places embodied.