Salvatore Bonafede

Bravo Bene! (2025)

Filming on Franco Maresco's film about Carmelo Bene is abruptly halted after yet another on-set accident. Producer Andrea Occhipinti pulls the plug, exasperated by the endless takes and repeated delays. Angered, the director simply disappears. Maresco's fr ...

The Ploy (2016)

In the summer of '75 Pier Paolo Pasolini's film, "Salò", is stolen from the lab where he is editing it. This is just the first step of an intricate plan that will bring the great poet to his violent death. ...

Sicily Jass: The World's First Man in Jazz (2015)

2017 will mark a century from the recording of what is historically considered the first Jazz record, but very few know that it was recorded by a Sicilian emigrant to New Orleans: Nick La Rocca. The record sold a million and half copies! Featuring exclusiv ...

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. ...

Viva Palermo, viva Santa Rosalia (2013)

How We Got the Italian Movie Business Into Trouble: The True Story of Franco and Ciccio (2004)

The Return of Cagliostro (2003)

In the Sicily of the late 1940s, two brother sculptors, tired of selling madonnas to the local churches, finally realize their dream, and set up a Sicilian production company, thanks to the help of a local bishop. They start producing one box-office failur ...

Lovano Supreme (2023)

Maresco returns to speak not only about Jazz, but about the double thread that connects jazz with Italy, or more precisely, with Sicily. ...

Viva Palermo, viva Santa Rosalia (2013)