38th edition
17-25 january 2026

Morte di un matematico napoletano

Mario Martone

Image Morte di un matematico napoletano
Italy
1992 Fiction 1h50
On 1st May 1959, the police arrest a drunk in Rome's train station. He is in fact a respectable communist mathematician at Naples University. When he returns to his family and friends in Naples, he meets with one disillussion after another. This is to be the last week of his life. The story is based on the life of Renato Cacciopoli, the grandson of the Russian anarchist Bakounine.
With : Carlo Cecchi, Anna Bonaiuto, Renato Carpentieri, Antonio Neiwiler, Licia Maglietta
Screenplay : Mario Martone, Fabrizia Ramondino
Image : Luca Bigazzi
Sound : Hubert Nijhuis
Music : Michele Campanella
Editing : Jacopo Quadri
Production : Teatri Uniti Coop
Piazza dei Martiri 58, Naples
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Mario Martone was born in Naples in 1960. In 1977, he founded the avant-garde theatre group, Falso Movimento, which mounted productions ranging from Verdi's "Othello" to "Return to Alphaville". In 1987, his group merged with two other Napolitan troupes to form Teatri Uniti which produced "Death of a Neapolitan Mathematician".