Mario Martone Movies

Rome. The 1980s. After the magnum opus The Art of Joy she has been working on for a decade is rejected by the Italian publishing world, writer...

Antonio Barracano is a respected figure among the Neapolitan underworld, keeping order and administering justice according to his own criteria,...

The classic opera about falling into and out of love, friendship, and loss. Mimi and the poet Rudolfo, the painter Marcello and Musetta are the...

Successful illustrator Daniele Mallarico travels to Naples to look after his four-year-old grand-son while his daughter is away for a few days. What...

The life of a dying young man at the short age of only forty-one after playing the lead in Il postino. He was a brilliant stage actor before becoming...

A couple of bourgeois intellectuals, Carlo and Silvia, have been married for twenty years. While she lives in their flat in Rome, he spends most of...

Allen Ginsberg is reading his poetry in the Trianon movie theater, which is a historical red light theater in Naples. At the same time, the hardcore...

When her elderly mother is found dead under sordid circumstances, Delia returns to her native Naples for the first time in years to attend the...

The famos Double Feature of Verismo at La Scala with Daniel Harding conducting from February 2011

Impressive and dramatic found-footage documentary about the worldwide issue of emigration and immigration.

Teatro alla Scala presents a new production of Tchaikovsky’s masterpiece of unrequited love, drawn from Pushkin’s novel. Acclaimed...

In 1914, with Italy on the cusp of joining World War I, a group of foreign artists establishes a commune on the rural island of Capri, catching the...

In 19th-century Italy, Giacomo Leopardi channels his debilitating illness and isolation into poetry.

In early 20th-century Naples, a theatrical parody lands beloved thespian and playwright Eduardo Scarpetta in court, facing a malicious lawsuit that...

A theatrical production of Aeschylus's ancient Greek tragedy directed by Mario Martone, staged at the Teatro Greco di Siracusa (Greek Theatre of...

The conflict between human rationality and emotional control, represented by the King of Thebes, Pentheus, and unbridled human passion, represented...