Naples, 1959. Renato Caccioppoli, university professor in pure mathematics, is a disillusioned and tormented man who lives the last days of his life. Grandson of Bakunin on his mother’s side, interned in a psychiatric hospital for his anti-fascist acts, abandoned by his wife, and now become estranged from his own Communist Party comrades and his University collaborators, he lives his life with disenchanted detachment until his last act, suicide.
Director: Mario Martone.
Stars: Carlo Cecchi, Anna Bonaiuto, Renato Carpentieri, Toni Servillo, Antonio Neiwiller, Licia Maglietta, Fulvia Carotenuto, Roberto De Francesco, Andrea Renzi, Alessandra D’Elia, Annalisa Foà, Lucio Amelio, Vera Lombardi, Lucio Allocca, Toni Bertorelli.
Great cinematography and divine blocking (Renato travelling on the funicular.)
I haven’t seen too many films about Neapolitan nihilists, it is strange to watch a man who appeared to have so little of the accepted traits of his fellow Neapolitans.
A serious and profound film.
Edit: Renato Caccioppoli was from Avella and not a native Neapolitan.
Edit; I was correct the *first* time.