Tonino Taiuti

Dadapolis - Neapolitan Kaleidoscope (2024)

Naples told, through the centuries, in an anthology: Dadapolis by Fabrizia Ramondino and Andreas Friedrich Müller. A city always full of ferment, culture but also contradictions. In the film, however, today's city is told through the eyes of about sixty a ...

La divina cometa (2023)

The Hidden Child (2021)

Gabriele Santoro is a Professor of Pianoforte at the Music Conservatory San Pietro a Majella who lives in a working-class area of the city. One morning, while shaving his beard, the postman buzzes at the intercom to tell him he has a package. Gabriele open ...

La tristezza ha il sonno leggero (2021)

In a dilapidated Neapolitan apartment furnished in punk style, a dysfunctional extended family takes center stage. Amidst arguments, reconciliations, tensions, and clarifications, on the night the Berlin Wall falls, Erri Gargiulo, a shy and unambitious for ...

The Handyman (2018)

We are all equal before the law, but some are just more equal than others. Antonio is a trainee lawyer who dreams of joining his mentor's prestigious firm. But Salvatore "Toti" Bellastella, the Prince of the Forum, is also an exploitative tyrant! He asks ...

We Accept Miracles (2015)

Fired from his HR job in the big city, Fulvio returns home and sees a leaky pipe in his brother's church as the way to save the crumbling town. ...

Perez. (2014)

Demetrio Perez is a tough prosecutor torn between the corruption inherent in his job and the desire to do right by his family. But when opportunity presents itself and his daughter Thea falls in love with a Mafioso's son, Perez has to cut through the moral ...

Bisesto (2009)

A Donatello award nominated short film about a family who grow up and develop between 1952 and 2008. ...

Incantesimo napoletano (2002)

In a family of full-blooded Neapolitans, tragedy strikes: a girl is born speaking and acting like a northerner! ...

The Dust of Naples (1998)

The title deliberatly recalls the famous L'oro di Napoli (Napoli's Gold) by Vittorio De Sica (1954). Alike De Sica's film here Naples is the real protagonist: Naples and its dust, not its gold. Through five episodes expressing different aspects of Naples, ...

Blind Light (1998)

A photographer (Edie Falco), a Swedish author (Per Myrberg) and a filmmaker experience a moment of self-awareness on an Italian island ...

Open Sea (1998)

For personal and humanitarian reasons, Edoardo, a Ligurian sea captain, agrees to run a shipment of arms to Bosnian rebels for a shady Russian in Toulon who calls himself Riffaud. Edoardo's lover Clara wants him to quit the sea and Riffaud's wife warns Edo ...

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. ...

Padre Pio de Pietrelcina (1997)

Sacred Silence (1996)

A young priest crusades against organized crime in his Naples neighbourhood but falls in love with a 13-year-old boy. It's the chance the gangsters were waiting for to get rid of the thorn in their side. Will they be able to force the boy to accuse the pri ...

Bullets Over the Materdei (1995)

Sud (1993)

During a hot Sunday afternoon in a small Southern Italian town, a school serving as a polling place is occupied by a group of three locals and an Eritrean immigrant, all unemployed, desperate and armed. ...

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 ...

The Dust of Naples (1998)

The title deliberatly recalls the famous L'oro di Napoli (Napoli's Gold) by Vittorio De Sica (1954). Alike De Sica's film here Naples is the real protagonist: Naples and its dust, not its gold. Through five episodes expressing different aspects of Naples, ...