Pfollows the transposition of the theatrical comedies of Eduardo De Filippo on TV. After Christmas at the Cupiello house, Saturday, Sunday and Monday And Filumena Marturano it’s up to Naples Millionaire! (tonight at 9.30pm on Rai 1) with the couple Massimiliano Gallo and Vanessa Scalera, the protagonists of Imma Tataranni. The direction is by Luca Miniero.
Last year at this time the two colleagues and friends successfully ventured into Filumena Marturano. Tonight, however, they dress, always impeccably, in the role of Gennaro and Amalia Jovine, grappling with the education of three children, war, poverty and greed for money.
Naples millionaire!the plot
1943, Naples, vico Scassacocchi. Amalia (Vanessa Scalera) and her husband Gennaro (Massimiliano Gallo), with their three children Amedeo (Vincenzo Nemolato), Maria Rosaria (Carolina Rapillo) and the five-year-old girl Rituccia (Andrea Solimena), live with hardship in their small house. He is a former tram driver forced to play dead to cover up illegal dealings of the wife who makes do smuggling flour, oil, coffee, beans and various foodstuffs with the help of Errico Settebellizze (Michele Venitucci), a man who dotes on ambitious women.
While he is buying apples, Gennaro he is captured by the retreating Germans. After 13 months the man returns to Naples devastated by war. Everyone in the neighborhood, including his family, thought he was dead. When Gennaro enters his house he finds everything changed, Amalia has become rich through smuggling and the company founded with Settebellizzeher son Amedeo is a car thief, Maria Rosaria is pregnant by an American who has run away, and Rituccia is in bed with a fever.
Only the illness of her youngest daughter will bring Amalia closer to her husband and will make the woman understand how much war is money blinded her. The man begins to rebuild the honest identity of his family dissolved causing your eyes to reopen to his wife who fell into the abyss. For Gennaro the war is not over, before «It’s been going on all night».
Naples Millionaire! by Eduardo De Filippo
Luca Miniero has revisited and updated the text by Eduardo De Filippo. «In the Neapolitan playwright’s masterpiece there are all the instructions for modernizing and respecting it – states the director – Naples Millionaire! it’s a very current comedy depending on how you touch the chords.” For example, Amalia has all the characteristics of a modern woman who can support herself.
De Filippo brought his text to the stage immediately after the war to the San Carlo Theater in Naples, «throwing the moral consequences of the conflict in the face of a wounded city. Eduardo’s theater becomes civilized”, comments Miniero. The TV film is set in an alley in Forcella and mixes the 1945 theater work and the 1962 film, by De Filippo himself. Naples Millionaire! it also became an opera debuting at the Festival dei Due Mondi in Spoleto in 1977.
Massimiliano Gallo and Vanessa Scalera. (Photo Sabrina Cirillo)
All of Eduardo De Filippo’s comedies come to life on Rai Play
It is available from today on Rai Play collection Christmas at the De Filippo house: forty works, among the most famous, by the Neapolitan playwright. Finally fans of Eduardo’s comedies can enjoy the original versions of Christmas at the Cupiello house (in two versions), Filumena Marturano, Naples millionaire, Exams never end (1976), These ghostsof the six-part drama Peppino Girella of 1963 and many other titles.
Michele Venitucci and Valeria Scalera. (Photo Sabrina Cirillo)
I’m not paying you on Rai 1 on 2 January 2024
And it didn’t end here. It will be broadcast on Rai 1 on January 2nd in prime time the new version of I’m not paying you by Edoardo De Angelis, who returns to direct Sergio Castellitto After Saturday, Sunday, and Monday And Christmas at the Cupiello house. Ferdinando Quagliuolo (Castellitto) has inherited a lottery bank from his father Saverio, but dreams of breaking it with an extraordinary win.
Finally the day of the win arrives, but Mario Bertolin is the one who benefitsi, his young employee, secretly engaged to his daughter Stella (Pina Turco). It was Don Saverio himself who gave him the winning numbers, appearing to him in a dream. Ferdinand is consumed with envy and, when the young man gives him the note to show him that he is not lying, he takes it.
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