PORTA CAPUANA

By Marcello SANNINO

PARALLELO 41 PRODUZIONI - as PROD

Environmental - Completed 2018

"Here is today like yesterday, as always ... always the same hell, the same shops, merchandise, trade, traffics, different people. A babel of languages. Who wants to know the Neapolitan populace really in all its habits between its virtues and its vices ... come to the Porta Capuana, at any time of the 24 hours of the day, and will train ... Porta Capuana is the universal theater, it is the Cosmopolis of our people .. Here there is neither night nor day».

Festivals
& Awards

Torino FF 2018
Italiana Doc
    • Year of production
    • 2018
    • Genres
    • Environmental, True Story, Documentary
    • Countries
    • ITALY
    • Languages
    • ITALIAN
    • Duration
    • 62 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Marcello SANNINO
    • Producer(s)
    • Antonella DI NOCERA (PARALLELO 41 PRODUZIONI)
    • Synopsis
    • Porta Capuana was the main entrance to the city of Napoli, the point through which one entered the city center from the east. The door with its ancient stones that transpire ancient and present stories is still today a place of frontier, passage, waiting. Today it is the place of arrival and departure for Africans, Chinese, Bulgarians, Ukrainians and Tatars. The towers rise above days and nights, the inevitable mongrelisation has been taking shape from everyday life for ages. Rithual and transcendence keep showing and reshaping nonstop. Capuana is a film about physical, social and historic disorientation. A global village, static and dynamic at the same time, like a single living organism whose molecules live life of their own, separate but indissolubly linked to “that Everything” from which they suck the life blood. The story of the fluid frontier of a porous city.