15/02/2023 - Seven weeks of filming are scheduled in Naples for the film based on Ermanno Rea’s novel of the same name, produced by Picomedia, Mad Entertainment and Vision Distribution

Actor-director Marco D’Amore and actor Toni Servillo (© Nicolas Spiess)

Toni Servillo is leading the cast of Caracas [+see also:
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Based upon the novel published in 2007 Napoli Ferrovia, by Ermanno Rea, the film’s first clapperboard slammed a few days ago in Naples, with shooting set to continue for another 7 weeks. Caracas is produced by Picomedia, Mad Entertainment and Vision Distribution, who are also managing international sales at the Berlin Film Festival’s EFM.

Giordano Fonte is a Neapolitan writer who wanders around an engulfing and terrorising yet enchanting version of Naples, a city he no longer recognises having not returned to it for many years. But he’s not alone. He’s accompanied by Caracas, a man who’s active in the far right and who’s about to convert to Islam in search of a truth about existence which has thus far eluded him. Giordano sings about Caracas and Yasmina’s impossible love as they make their way through a city where everyone hopes they won’t lose their way and that they’ll find redemption. Everyone, including Caracas and Giordano, dreams of waking from a nightmare and opening their eyes, after a night full of darkness, onto a day full of light.

“Naples in Caracas is an abandoned, messy and beautiful city. Abused and shameless. Damned. Naples isn’t Naples, it’s a South American barrio, a Brazilian favela, an Indian slum”, the director stresses. The film’s photography comes courtesy of Stefano Meloni who collaborated on D’Amore’s documentary Napoli magica [+see also:
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(Translated from Italian)