Mario Martone

Fuori (2025)

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 Goliarda Sapienza commits a desperate theft that costs her her reputation and social position. Incarcerated in It ...

Un ritratto in movimento - Omaggio a Mimmo Jodice (2023)

A friend of Jodice, Martone recounts the story of the great Neapolitan photographer: a film made for the exhibition at the Gallerie d'Italia in Turin, Mimmo Jodice. Timeless. ...

Massimo Troisi: Somebody Down There Likes Me (2023)

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 an astonishing film director. ...

Nostalgia (2022)

Felice returns to his native Rione Sanità in Naples to look after his dying mother, having lived abroad for the last forty years. Here he discovers that his old friend Oreste has become a notorious crimeboss. ...

La Bohème (2022)

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 lovers; the musician Schaunard and philosopher Colline round out the set of friends living life rather close to ...

The King of Laughter (2021)

In early 20th-century Naples, a theatrical parody lands beloved thespian and playwright Eduardo Scarpetta in court, facing a malicious lawsuit that could compromise his freedom of expression and the economic security of his extended family—including his ...

La Traviata (2021)

Mario Martone signs direction and scenes of this new film-work of Verdi's masterpiece. On the podium of the Orchestra of the Teatro dell'opera in Rome its musical director, maestro Daniele Gatti. the new set-up of the opera to a libretto by Francesco Maria ...

Il barbiere di Siviglia (2020)

From the Opera House of Rome Il barbiere di Siviglia by Gioachino Rossini. Orchestra and Choir Of The Opera of Rome, conductor Daniele Gatti. Directed by Mario Martone. ...

The Mayor of Rione Sanità (2019)

Antonio Barracano is a respected figure among the Neapolitan underworld, keeping order and administering justice according to his own criteria, beyond the law. One day he's faced with a dilemma after a youth asks him permission to kill his father. ...

Capri-Revolution (2018)

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 attention of young Lucia, a local illiterate shepherdess who soon falls under their spell. ...

Verdi: Falstaff (2018)

Falstaff is Verdi's masterpiece of comic opera, in which the behaviour of the ageing Sir John Falstaff, a devious freeloader and would-be ladykiller, causes uproar in the petty-bourgeois household of the Windsor's. In this performance stage and film direct ...

Giordano: Andrea Chénier - Teatro alla Scala (2017)

Andrea Chénier, Umberto Giordano's masterpiece, a title that opens the Piermarini's 2017/2018 opera season, returns to La Scala in Milan after a 32-year absence. A highly anticipated event, not only because of the debut in the role of Magdalena by superst ...

Mascagni: Cavallera Rusticana (2016)

A small village in Sicily, Easter Sunday. A despondent Santuzza searches for Turiddu, the man she loves. Before leaving for the army he was in love with Lola. But Santuzza, despite being married to Alfio, has won back Turiddu's heart...Elīna Garanča and ...

Hindemith: Sancta Susanna (2016)

Klementia, who has been a nun for several years, is troubled by an apparition of Saint Susanna. The latter, performed by Anna Caterina Antonacci, lifts the veil on a carnal world she finds disturbing. Encouraged to confide by this awakening, Klementia reco ...

The Bassarids - Theatro dell’Opera di Roma (2015)

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

Pastorale cilentana (2015)

An agricultural setting in the mid-14th century. Vineyards and olive groves stretch as far as the eye can see. In the distance, there is a farmstead, simple but not poor. The family that lives there consists of father, mother and an eight-year old son, Nin ...

Leopardi (2014)

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

Beethoven: Fidelio (2014)

Rossini - Matilde di Shabran (2013)

Juan Diego Flórez takes on the lead role in this performance of Rossini's opera at the 2012 Pesaro Festival. Corradino (Flórez), a paranoid, misogynistic lord, is in the care of Aliprando (Nicola Alaimo), a doctor who is concerned that the poor spirits o ...

Small Moral Works (2011)

Documentary of the show theatre "Small Moral Works". ...

La meditazione di Hayez (2011)

Short film directed by Mario Martone, inspired by the work of the painter Francesco Hayez. ...

Cavalleria rusticana - Pagliacci (2011)

A double-bill of operas filmed by Franco Zeffirelli. 'Cavalleria Rusticana' features performances by Elena Obraztsova, Plácido Domingo, and Renato Bruson, while 'Pagliacci' again features Plácido Domingo, along with Teresa Stratas and Juan Pons. Georges ...

We Believed (2010)

1828. After witnessing the brutal repression of revolutions in monarchist South, three young friends join Giuseppe Mazzini's patriotic cause, seeking to finally unify Italy under a republican government. Their idealism will clash with the inevitable disill ...

Verdi: Un Ballo in Maschera (2008)

Passion, loyalty and political conspiracy are the three pillars of Un ballo in maschera (1859), the 'most operatic of all operas'. Set in 19th-century Boston, Mario Martone's atmospheric production for the Teatro Real brings out all the innate theatricalit ...

Torvaldo e Dorliska (2007)

Caravaggio, the Last Act (2005)

"Caravaggio, l'ultimo tempo" is a 2004 documentary directed by Mario Martone and based on the life of the Italian painter Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio. ...

Così venne ucciso Pasolini (2005)

Sergio Citti talks about a video he shot in 1975 after Pier Paolo Pasolini's death. ...

The Scent of Blood (2004)

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 his time in the country house where he writes his books, openly living with his younger lover, Lù. In retur ...

Lulu (2001)

Nella Napoli di Luca Giordano (2001)

On the occasion of the Neapolitan exhibition dedicated this year to Luca Giordano, a great painter active in the '600 in Naples, the short film alternates the details of the many paintings exhibited at Castel Sant'elmo with some fragments of the contempora ...

Another World Is Possible (2001)

Many communities were founded to improve the world in the second half of the last century. India with its enormous historic potential of celebrated spirituality and a generous attitude to other life forms, became the home to many of these communes seeking ...

I dieci comandamenti (2001)

The film shot signed by Mario Martone of the Ten Commandments, the legendary Decalogue by Raffaele Viviani, in the version staged by Martone himself in Naples, in the popular district overlooking casa Viviani. The director said: "Viviani's theater is not b ...

Roman Summer (2000)

Rome, Esquilino, summer. Rossella returns to Rome after years of absence and returns to her home, rented to her friend Salvatore, the set designer. The woman is gripped by an evident depression and wanders around the city that she does not recognize and th ...

Un posto al mondo (2000)

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

Rehearsals For War (1998)

A group of actors meet with little money in a unofficial theatre in Naples' Spanish Boroughs. Director's plan is to travel to Sarajevo, still under siege, to stage a classic Eschilus' play about civil war in Tebe. While they rehearse in the theatre cast me ...

Una disperata vitalità (1998)

The director resumes at the theater Laura Berti who reads the most beautiful lyrics of Pier Paolo Pasolini, giving with his hands, voice and words, rhythm and unity to the work. ...

Appunti da Santarcangelo (1998)

The Earth Quakes (1998)

The Vesuvians (1997)

Five Neapolitan directors depict life in the city under the shadow of Mount Vesuvius for this anthology film of comedy, drama, surrealism, and political commentary. ...

La salita (1997)

Clearly inspired by the then-mayor of Naples Antonio Bassolino, with references to the problems of the city and its hopes of a renaissance, the works of Francesca Spada, the crow of Pasolini's The Hawks and the Sparrows. Segment of "I vesuviani" (1997). ...

Badolato, 10 dicembre 1995. Per Antonio Neiwiller (1996)

A Sahrawi story (1996)

It describes the way of life of the Sahara people in the Western Sahara Desert, in particular it tells the story of a child bitten by a snake. ...

Finale di Partita (1996)

Troubling Love (1995)

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 funeral. Trying to piece together her estranged parent's secret life, she'll face the hidden memories that shaped ...

The Only Country In The World (1994)

Anthology short film with segments by nine directors against Silvio Berlusconi and its Forza Italia party — released ahead of the 1994 Italian general elections, which Berlusconi nevertheless won in a landslide. In Nanni Moretti's segment, he and Silvio ...

Miracoli - Storie per corti (1994)

First segment: Chiara, an office girl, reads for an old man from books. One day a few coinciding occurrences during her reading disturb that activity. Second segment: Agroup of klezmer musicians during an intermission in one of their concerts. ...

Antonio Mastronunzio pittore sannita (1994)

A versatile Campanian artist is asked by a client to recreate one of his paintings for him. But can a painter repeat one of his own "miracles"? ...

Luciano Amelio/Terrae motus (1993)

Veglia (1993)

Razor (1993)

Mario Martone films the eponymous stage show by Enzo Moscato. ...

Death of a Neapolitan Mathematician (1992)

Naples, 1959. Pure Mathematics professor Renato Caccioppoli, Bakunin's grandson, is a tortured soul. Recently discharged from the psychiatric hospital, left by his wife, and increasingly disillusioned with academia and the Communist Party, he lives his las ...

I Persiani (1990)

Prologo a Ritorno ad Alphaville (1986)

Il desiderio preso per la coda (1986)

Carlo Zago (1985)

The Moorish general Othello is manipulated into thinking that his new wife Desdemona has been carrying on an affair with his lieutenant Michael Cassio when in reality it is all part of the scheme of a bitter ensign named Iago. ...

Nessun dove - Studi su immagini di Napoli (1985)

Presented in Naples by the Napolinovantove Foundation, it received in the same year the panansonic Filmmaker Award 1985, Milan. ...

Perfidi incanti (1984)

"Perfidi Incanti" is made up of three short episodes. The first, "Il Viaggio" ("The Journey"), is taken from Francis Scott Fitzgerald's diaries, and shows the adventures of a writer traveling between America, Africa and Europe. The second episode, "Estrell ...

Glacial Tango (1983)

Foresta nera (1982)

Per sempre al Massimo (2024)

Totò e il Principe De Curtis - L'uomo oltre la maschera (2023)

Un'altra Italia era possibile - Il cinema di Giuseppe De Santis (2023)

The documentary aims to tell the story of a director who managed to capture the attention of the whole world and, due to his political and aesthetic coherence, was able to work much less than he deserved. It's the story of a film professor who earned the g ...

Viva Viviani (2023)

Massimo Troisi: Somebody Down There Likes Me (2023)

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 an astonishing film director. ...

Felicità - La stagione della rinascita (2021)

Costellazione Bertolucci (2020)

In one of his last interviews, Italian cinema's last emperor retraces his poetic and familiar roots and his long successful career since its beginnings with Pasolini till the last masterpieces. The voice of the Maestro is accompanied by those of two artist ...

Searching for Valentina: The World of Guido Crepax (2019)

1965: Paris, London and Milan all move at the same fast pace, fueled by a fresh creative and rebellious impetus. Guido Crepax picks up on this energy and transfers it to a comic strip in which art, music, design, film and fashion all blend together, breaki ...

Buon compleanno Carlo Verdone! (2018)

Legendary Italian writer and director talks about his career and, in particular, three films he directed: Acqua e Sapone; Maledetto il giorno che ti ho incontrato; Io, Loro e Lara, while many of his colleagues and friends wish him a happy birthday for his ...

Ferrante Fever (2017)

Hillary Clinton, Roberto Saviano, Jonathan Franzen and others weigh-in on the Elena Ferrante "craze" and what makes her work - and her mysterious persona - so uniquely captivating. ...

Pina Bausch a Roma (2017)

I Don't Know the Men of this City (2015)

Franco scaldati - died in 2013 - was one of the most important autors of italian theatre plays, Maresco describes his role in the cultural and social field. Through his opera we can observe Italy from another point of view. ...

Mario Martone: Premio alla carriera (2015)

Chronicle about Lifetime Achievement Award given to the Italian director Mario Martone at the Med Film Festival in Rome. The souvenirs by the actress Iaia Forte, critic comment by Giona Nazzaro and the director Mario Martone that makes considerations about ...

In the Eyes (2009)

Documentary about the life and career of Vittorio Mezzogiorno through the voice of his daughter Giovanna. ...

Pier Paolo Pasolini and the Reason of a Dream (2002)

Through interviews, archive footage and quotes from books and films by Pasolini, Laura Betti, friend, actress and collaborator of Pasolini, improvises as a director, making a feature film dreaming of Pier Paolo's words immersed in everything that has not i ...

Westmoreland Naples (1996)

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 film, Tutta una vita, is being projected. A member of the audience in his sixties drops off to sleep. His d ...

Aspettando Totò (1996)