Napoli piange e ride
Directed byFlavio Calzavara
Written byMario Volpe
Flavio Calzavara
Francesco Vigo
Guglielmo Santangelo
Ilia Avella
Jacopo Corsi
StarringLuciano Tajoli
CinematographyRenzo Manuelli
Mario Albertelli
Music byLuciano Maraviglia
Release date
  • 1954 (1954)
LanguageItalian

Napoli piange e ride (i. e. "Naples cries and laughs") is a 1954 Italian musical melodrama film written and directed by Flavio Calzavara and starring Luciano Tajoli and Jula De Palma .[1][2]

Plot

Luciano had to give up singing and his theatrical career following an accident, which made him paralyzed: he is a watchmaker.  when the master blasi, a well-known Don Giovanni, discovers that Marisa, Luciano's wife, has a beautiful voice and gets her a profitable contract, the watchmaker, suspecting an affair, is saddened by it.  blasi proposes to the woman to run away with him and when she refuses, she enters Marisa's house at night and tries to use violence on her.  the woman reacts and in the fight blasi is mortally wounded by a shot from his own gun.  Piero, the fiancé of Luciano's sister, rushes in and in a fit of generosity, to save Marisa, pleads guilty to the killing.  Luciano, as he hurries home, falls from his wheelchair and suffers a serious trauma.  he is exposed to the danger of becoming blind: in order to bear the cost of a difficult operation, Marisa decides to keep the contract she had canceled.  the operation succeeds.  the police discover piero's innocence, confirmed by marisa, who until now had been silent so as not to grieve luciano.  Marisa, although cleared of all charges, feels unworthy to return to her husband;  but after some time, Luciano is reunited with his wife[3]

Cast

References

  1. Roberto Chiti; Roberto Poppi; Enrico Lancia. Dizionario del cinema italiano: I film. Gremese, 1991. ISBN 8876055487.
  2. Paolo Mereghetti. Il Mereghetti - Dizionario dei film. B.C. Dalai Editore, 2010. ISBN 8860736269.
  3. calzavara, flavio, Napoli Piange E Ride - IMPORT (in Italian), Medusavideo, retrieved 2022-06-10


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