The Art of Happiness (2013)
Overview
Sergio driving a taxi in a white Naples overflowing sadness and garbage. Pouring rain leads her clients through the city trying to process the death of his brother, who started ten years earlier for Tibet and never returned. A pop singer, a recycler of fragments of life, a radio announcer, an old uncle, alternate seats on its bearing, each in its own way, a trace of his brother loved. Stubborn not to go over and get lost in an endless race, Sergio is overwhelmed by memories and the music produced in pairs with Alfredo, which in Buddhism and in its foundations had found the strength to cope with the disease. Those notes that he believed buried and laid to always return overbearing and demanding a soundboard that resonate and express his being sound. Putting his hand on the piano, Sergio Alfredo feel again, giving the past with the present and realizing itself in the feeling.
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Additional Info
| Budget | $0.00 |
|---|---|
| Revenue | $0.00 |
| Original Language | it |
| Popularity | 5.036 |
Directed By
Alessandro Rak
Crew
Luciano Stella
Alessandro Rak
Alessandro Rak
Marino Guarnieri
Alessandro Rak
Alessandro Rak
Luigi Scialdone
Alessandro Rak
Antonio Fresa
Ivan Cappiello
Dario Sansone
Marino Guarnieri
Ivana Verze
Corrado Piscitelli
Marino Guarnieri
Laura Sammati
Paolo Acampora
Ivan Cappiello
Corrado Piscitelli
Ivan Cappiello
Marino Guarnieri
Antonia Emanuela Angrisani
Antonia Emanuela Angrisani
Alessandro Rak
Ivan Cappiello
Annarita Calligaris
Alessandro Rak
Ivan Cappiello
Ivan Cappiello
Ivan Cappiello
Annarita Calligaris
Giorgio Siravo
Paolo Acampora
Dario Sansone
Luigi Scialdone
Alessandro Rak
Ivan Cappiello
Dario Sansone
Olga Rapelli
Luciano Stella
Marino Guarnieri
Andrea Cutillo
Paola Tortora
Francesca Romana Bergamo
Flavia Borzacchiello
Nicola Barile
Paola Tortora
Antonio Fresa
Luigi Scialdone
Luciano Stella
TOP CAST
Leandro Amato
Sergio Cometa
Nando Paone
Alfredo Cometa
Renato Carpentieri
Uncle Luciano Cometa
Jun Ichikawa
Antonia
Lucio Allocca
Dad of Sergio and Alfredo
Silvia Baritzka
Lariza
Francesca Romana Bergamo
Radio news
Antonio Brachi
The gallerist
Iolanda Semez
Signora Pinotta / Mother of Sergio and Alfredo
Patrizia Di Martino
Erika / Neapolitan women
Ciro Cesarano
Nando
Riccardo Polizzy Carbonelli
Speaker
Luigi Meola
Sergio child
Matteo Russo
Alfredo child
Gennaro Matino
The pastor
Paola Tortora
Neapolitan woman from below
Dario Sansone
Neapolitan man from below
Antonio Funaro
Radio Taxi
Robert Thurman
Man in the TV
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