NAPLES IS…
LA SALITA
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There’s a Naples of the imagination and there’s the real city: the city of fiction and the one with its tales of a past very much alive. Massimilano Gallo’s directorial debut, La salita, is a film about a little-known anecdote from the life of Eduardo De Filippo, featuring a Nisida very different from the image it has in the series Mare fuori, yet Gallo’s take on prison and women behind bars is just as contemporary. Courtesy of Panamafilm and the Film Commission Regione Campania.
LA SALITA
Naples, 1983. Due to earthquake damage (the variant called bradyseism), the women’s prison in Pozzuoli is closed and the inmates are moved temporarily to other penitentiaries. Some of the women are transferred to the juvenile prison on the islet of Nisida. The playwright Eduardo De Filippo goes to the island frequently, helping to renovate the prison’s theater and create a school for acting and set design.
Italy, 2025, 90′, color
direction
Massimiliano Gallo
screenplay
Riccardo Brun
Mara Fondacaro
Massimiliano Gallo
cinematography
Davide Sondelli
editing
Maria Fantastica Valmori
music
Enzo Avitabile
sound
Giuseppe Angelelli
production design
Giada Esposito
costumes
Eleonora Rella
cast
Roberta Caronia
Alfredo Francesco Cossu
Mariano Rigillo
Antonio Milo
Shalana Santana
Gianfelice Imparato
Maurizio Casagrande
Massimiliano Gallo
productions
Panamafilm, F.A.N.
with Rai Cinema
producers
Donella Bossi Pucci
Riccardo Brun
Paolo Rossetti
Francesco Siciliano
Massimiliano Gallo
Rino Pinto
with the support of
MiC – Direzione Generale Cinema e Audiovisivo
Film Commission Regione Campania
in association with
Moodyproduction
Antracine
Al-one
BCC (Banca Campania Centro)
Italian distributiona
Fandango Distribuzione
www.fandango.it
fandango@fandango.it
Italian press office
Biancamano e Spinetti
Zaccaria Communication
www.zaccariacommunication.com
info@zaccariacommunication.com
Massimiliano Gallo has worked with directors such as Matteo Garrone, Paolo Sorrentino, Mario Martone, Ferzan Özpetek, Marco Risi, and Alessandro Gassmann. He alternates stage and television roles as well as film. Of Eduardo De Filippo’s works, Gallo has acted in Filumena Marturano, Napoli Milionaria, and Questi Fantasmi for RAI television. His recent roles include I Bastardi di Pizzofalcone, Imma Tataranni, and Vincenzo Malinconico.
