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Naples '44

First Run Features | Release Date: November 29, 2017

Summary: In 1943 a young British officer, Norman Lewis, entered a war-torn Naples with the American Fifth Army. Lewis began writing in his notepad everything that happened to him during his one-year stay observing the complex social cauldron of a city that contrived every day the most incredible ways of fighting to survive. These notes turned into the masterpiece Naples '44. This film adaptation imagines Lewis returning to the city that charmed and seduced him many years later. This visionary reminiscence is made up of flashbacks between the places of the present that Lewis revisits and the stories of the past. We will see in eighty minutes a thrilling and unpredictable parade of absolutely unforgettable stories and characters: women in feather hats milking cows in the rubble, statues of saints carried by hysterical crowds attempting to stop Vesuvius erupting and impoverished professionals surviving by impersonating aristocratic uncles from Rome at funerals and weddings. But Naples '44 is also – and perhaps above all - a powerful condemnation of the horrors of war, whether just or unjust.

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Runtime:	80 min
Rating:	Not Rated
Official Site:	https://www.firstrunfeatures.com/naples44.html
Production:	Rai Cinema
Genres:	War, Documentary
Country:	IT
Languages:	English, Italian

Director	Credit
Francesco Patierno	Director

Principal Cast	Credit
Adriano Giannini	Norman Lewis
Alan Arkin	Himself
Benedict Cumberbatch	Norman Lewis
Ernest Borgnine	Himself
Keenan Wynn	Himself

Producer	Credit
Davide Azzolini	Producer
Francesca Barra	Producer
Linda Vianello	Line Producer