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Red Moon over Naples


RED MOON OVER NAPLES

Luna Rossa

still from the film RED MOON OVER NAPLESThe Neapolitan is not interested in truth, nor is he interested in what is useful. Naples is about what you feel. The film presents this very special mentality using Neapolitan music and its famous songs.


A musical discovery of the sights and sounds of the city of Naples and its people. Naples, city under the volcano, city of contradictions: beauty und ugliness, joy and desperation are found side by side throughout its history. Everything that makes Naples so fascinating is reflected in its music! The camera does not linger on details of picturesque tourist sights, but throws itself literally into the bustling traffic and street markets to meet the Neapolitans going about their colourful and animated daily lives.


"Ce portrait de Naples ressemble à un tableau d'Arcimboldo, qui composait des figures à partir d'un seul élément: le légumes, ou les poissons. Ici, il s'agit simplement de sons pour peindre cette ville à travers l'enchevêtrement de tonalités puisées dans la langue parlée, dans le brouhaha perpétuel d'un monde soumis aux spasmes menaçants du Vésuve. Presque pas de commentaires dans cette évocation qui joue avec les masques de l'Arlequin, mais des paroles recucillies ou déclamées avec une gouaille d'un savoureux sens philosophico-populaire."


Bernard Mérigaud, Télérama, Paris February 2nd, 1999

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ITALY, 57', DV Cam, colour
Production: Brintrup/ARTE/ZDF/RAI

CAST Lello Giulivo, Michele Monetta, Emidio Ausiello, Riccardo de Luca, Riccardo Zinna, Carmen Femiano u.o.
MUSIC Neapolitan music, arranged by Antonello Paliotti
MUSICIANS Mauro Squillante, Agostino Aliviero, Leonardo Massa, Antonello Paliotti, Emidio Ausiello, Generoso Veglione
SINGER Lello Giulivo, Carmen Femiano, Ernesto Lama and Le Voci Italiane
CHOREOGRAPHY Maria Vittoria Maglione and the Scuola "La Dance"
PHOTOGRAPHY Luigi Verga
SOUND Roberto Bartoli
AUDIO MIX Klaus Berger
LOCATION MANAGER Carmen Femiano
ASSISTENT Luigi Boscaino
ENGLISH SPEAKER Edmund Purdom
EDITOR Fábio de Araújo, Jorge Alvis
WRITTEN / DIRECTED Georg Brintrup
TV PRODUCER Christoph Drese
PRODUCTION Brintrup-Filmproduktion, Rome, RAI, ZDF, Arte
FIRST BROADCAST ARTE on February 17th 1999
REPLAYS ARTE 9.1.2002, RAI SAT 1 on 5.2.1999, ZDF on 7.10.02, 3sat 8./25.8.02, ZDF theater channel Nov. 2005
gallery with stills from the film