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 | 5.244 |
Directed By
Alessandro Rak
Crew
Alessandro Rak
Luciano Stella
Alessandro Rak
Marino Guarnieri
Antonio Fresa
Luigi Scialdone
Alessandro Rak
Alessandro Rak
Alessandro Rak
Alessandro Rak
Alessandro Rak
Alessandro Rak
Ivan Cappiello
Ivan Cappiello
Ivan Cappiello
Ivan Cappiello
Ivan Cappiello
Ivan Cappiello
Ivan Cappiello
Ivan Cappiello
Marino Guarnieri
Marino Guarnieri
Dario Sansone
Dario Sansone
Dario Sansone
Marino Guarnieri
Antonia Emanuela Angrisani
Antonia Emanuela Angrisani
Annarita Calligaris
Annarita Calligaris
Laura Sammati
Ivana Verze
Corrado Piscitelli
Corrado Piscitelli
Giorgio Siravo
Paolo Acampora
Paolo Acampora
Francesca Romana Bergamo
Paola Tortora
Olga Rapelli
Flavia Borzacchiello
Nicola Barile
Luciano Stella
Paola Tortora
Andrea Cutillo
Luigi Scialdone
Marino Guarnieri
Luciano Stella
Antonio Fresa
Luigi Scialdone
TOP CAST
Leandro Amato
Sergio Cometa (voice)
Nando Paone
Alfredo Cometa (voice)
Renato Carpentieri
Zio Luciano Cometa (voice)
Jun Ichikawa
Antonia (voice)
Lucio Allocca
padre di Sergio e Alfredo (voice)
Silvia Baritzka
Lariza (voice)
Francesca Romana Bergamo
Conduttrice del Radiogiornale (voice)
Antonio Brachi
Maurizio Brachetti, il gallerista (voice)
Iolanda Semez
Sig.ra Pinotta (voice) / madre di Sergio e Alfredo (voice)
Patrizia Di Martino
Erika (voice) / Donne napoletane (voice)
Ciro Cesarano
Nando (voice)
Riccardo Polizzy Carbonelli
Speaker (voice)
Luigi Meola
Sergio da bambino (voice)
Matteo Russo
Alfredo da bambino (voice)
Gennaro Matino
Parroco (voice)
Paola Tortora
Donna napoletana dal basso (voice)
Dario Sansone
Uomo napoletano dal basso (voice)
Antonio Funaro
Radio Taxi (voice)
Robert Thurman
Uomo in TV (voice)
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