L'oro di Napoli
| L'Oro di Napoli | |
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Poster
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| Directed by | Vittorio De Sica |
| Produced by |
Dino De Laurentiis Marcello Girosi Carlo Ponti |
| Written by |
Giuseppe Marotta (novel) Vittorio De Sica Cesare Zavattini |
| Starring |
Silvana Mangano Sophia Loren Paolo Stoppa Totò |
| Music by | Alessandro Cicognini |
| Cinematography | Carlo Montuori |
| Edited by | Eraldo Da Roma |
| Distributed by | Ponti-De Laurentiis Cinematografica, Paramount Pictures |
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Release date
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11 February 1957 (USA) |
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Running time
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131 minutes |
| Country | Italy |
| Language | Italian |
The Gold of Naples (Italian: L'oro di Napoli [ˈlɔːro di ˈnaːpoli]) is a 1954 Italian anthology film directed by Vittorio De Sica. It was entered into the 1955 Cannes Film Festival.
The film is a tribute to Naples, where director De Sica spent his first years, this is a collection of 6 Neapolitan episodes: a clown exploited by a hoodlum; an unfaithful pizza seller (Loren) losing her wedding ring; the funeral of a child; the impoverished inveterate gambler Count Prospero B. being reduced to force his doorman's preteen kid to play cards with him (and losing regularly); the unexpected and unusual wedding of Teresa, a prostitute; the exploits of "professor" Ersilio Miccio, a "wisdom seller" who "solves problems".
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