A Santanotte by Elvira Notari with live music by Silvia Cignoli
A Santanotte by Elvira Notari with live music by Silvia Cignoli
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Date
Description
Tuesday 24 March, 6.30pm
A Santanotte
Screening of the silent film by Elvira Notari, with live musical accompaniment by Silvia Cignoli
Maria Elvira Giuseppa Coda, known as “Elvira Notari” (Salerno, February 10, 1875 – Cava de’ Tirreni, December 17, 1946), was the first Italian female film director. Her work is considered a forerunner of Neorealism. Of her many productions between 1906 and 1929 — 60 feature films and hundreds of short films and documentaries — very few have survived time, censorship, and an era in which the artistic value of women’s cultural work was not recognized. Among these is ‘A Santanotte. The film is inspired by the popular song of the same name by Francesco Buongiovanni and Eduardo Scala (1920).
Sweet little Nanninella, a waitress in a café, supports her father Giuseppone with her wages — a drunkard who mistreats her and takes advantage of her kindness. Courted by Tore, the girl would like to become engaged to him, but her father prefers to promise her in marriage to Carluccio, who convinces him by saying that if he accepts him as son-in-law, he will buy him drinks forever. Instigated by Carluccio, Giuseppone has an argument with Tore, during which he falls into a ravine and dies. Tore is accused of the murder by Carluccio and is arrested…
Organiser
Italian Cultural Institute London
Venue
Italian Cultural Institute, 39 Belgrave Square, SW1X 8NX London
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