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PG12

NAPOLI - NEW YORK

Genre
Drama
Running time
124 minutes
Year
2024
Language
Italian and English
Subtitle
English and Arabic
Country
Italy
Director
Gabriele Salvatores
Bio
Producer
Isabella Cocuzza, Arturo Paglia, Rai Cinema
Cast
Pierfrancesco Favino, Dea Lanzaro, Antonio Guerra, Omar Benson Miller, Anna Ammirati, Anna Lucia Pierro, Tomas Arana
Scriptwriter
Gabriele Salvatores

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The Italian city of Naples, devastated by World War II, lies in ruins; orphaned children Carmine and Celestina survive life in the rubble-strewn streets by helping each other. Like so many others, they dream of going to America, where Celestina’s sister went two years earlier. One night, they stow away on a ship with an eccentric captain bound for New York, where they join hordes of Italian emigrants hoping for a better life in this strange new country. Oscar-winning director Gabriele Salvatores shoots a rediscovered script by the Italian maestro Federico Fellini and scriptwriter Tullio Pinelli, who wrote it together 80 years ago as young aspiring film-makers before they collaborated on such classics as La Dolce Vita and 8 1/2. A story by Federico Fellini and Tullio Pinelli

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