Naples continues to be an ideal and natural setting for films and TV series. These days it is the turn of the director Mario Martone who has chosen the Rione Sanità and Capodimonte to shoot some scenes of the film "Nostalgia". The leading actor of the film is Pierfrancesco Favino, Coppa Volpi at the Venice Film Festival in 2020 for the best male interpretation for the film “Padrenostro”.
"Nostalgia" is a film inspired by the latest and namesake novel by Ermanno Rea, Neapolitan writer who died on 13 September 2016. It comes after the great success of “Qui rido io”, a biographical film by Eduardo Scarpetta directed by Mario Martone and starring Toni Servillo, Maria Nazionale and Eduardo Scarpetta junior. The film received the unanimous approval of critics and audiences at the Venice Film Festival.
The places chosen by the director Mario Martone
The plot of the film, produced by Mad Entertainment spa, is not yet known, but they have been chosen some iconic places of health to shoot some scenes. Among the locations there are the Tondo di Capodimonte, via Fontanelle, vico Lammatari and via Sanità. Filming will take place between September and early October.
“Nostalgia” is the latest novel by Ermanno Rea and tells the story of Felice Lasco who returns to the Sanità district to look after his sick and dying mother. The man returns to Naples after 45 years spent between the Middle East and Africa. In the city he waits to meet Oreste, a former friend but now a criminal.
The date of the first set of "Nostalgia" is the same as the death of the great writer, which took place on 13 September 2016. The headquarters of the troupe is outside the Basilica of the Mother of Good Counsel. The Basilica of San Gennaro extra Moenia has been adapted to the costume department of the film. Filming will last a month and a half and will not only be at Sanità but will cover many places in Naples.
Naples and Campania chosen as a set for cinema and TV series
There are countless films and TV series shot in Naples and Campania in recent months. In January 2021 Vincenzo Salemme worked on his new film, as did Sergio Rubini who returned to Campania to shoot "I Fratelli De Filippo", a film about the early years of Eduardo, Peppino and Titina De Filippo. Between 2020 and 2021 Paolo Sorrentino chose Naples for "It was the hand of God“, While in the following months Naples became the set for“ The great silence ”by Alessandro Gassmann and“ L'Ombra di Caravaggio ”by Michele Placido. The latter film was shot among some of the most evocative Neapolitan monumental buildings: the Certosa di San Martino, the Church and Cloister of Santa Maria la Nova and the Church of Santi Severino e Sossio.
The same film "Qui laugh io”By Mario Martone had Castel Capuano and the Pietrarsa Museum as locations. Among other films also “Welcome to the Esposito house” by Gianluca Ansanelli and “The hidden child” by Roberto Andò, based on the director's book of the same name.
There are also many TV series such as “The brilliant friend”, “Mina Settembre”, “Gomorra - The series”, “Inspector Ricciardi” and “I Bastardi di Pizzofalcone”. All have chosen iconic and evocative locations in Naples as their set.
