The Kingdom of Naples

The Kingdom of Naples

130 mins | Drama | June 8, 1978

Cahiers du cinéma critic Serge Daney asks whether The Kingdom of Naples is "leftist fiction, kitschy melodrama, photo-roman, a decadent chronicle of a city, opera in a minor key, or simply the first realistic narrative film by Schroeter?" It is all of these and more: an epic chronicle of proletarian family life in Naples from 1943 to 1972 that brilliantly captures the wretched poverty, overwrought passions, and political, religious and economic upheavals of Sicily across two generations. Schroeter assimilates neorealist aesthetics and class sympathies with the tempestuous excesses of popular melodrama, borrowing freely from Rossellini, Pasolini, Visconti, Brecht, and Rossini. (Facets)

The Kingdom of Naples

130 mins | Drama | June 8, 1978

The Kingdom of Naples
Cahiers du cinéma critic Serge Daney asks whether The Kingdom of Naples is "leftist fiction, kitschy melodrama, photo-roman, a decadent chronicle of a city, opera in a minor key, or simply the first realistic narrative film by Schroeter?" It is all of these and more: an epic chronicle of proletarian family life in Naples from 1943 to 1972 that brilliantly captures the wretched poverty, overwrought passions, and political, religious and economic upheavals of Sicily across two generations. Schroeter assimilates neorealist aesthetics and class sympathies with the tempestuous excesses of popular melodrama, borrowing freely from Rossellini, Pasolini, Visconti, Brecht, and Rossini. (Facets)
IMDb rating 6.3
Producers Dieter Geissler Filmproduktion, ZDF, P.B.C. S.p.a.
Original title Nel regno di Napoli
Directors Ines Zamurovic, Gerardo D'Andrea, Werner Schroeter
Writers Gerardo D'Andrea, Wolf Wondratschek, Werner Schroeter

Cast

Liana Trouché

as Valeria Cavioli-Simonetti

Antonio Orlando

as Massimo Pagano

Renata Zamengo

as Mother Pagano

Dino Mele

as Father Pagano

Margareth Clémenti

as Rosaria

Raúl Gimenez

as Simonetti

Cristina Donadio

as Vittoria Pagano

Gerardo D'Andrea

as Palumbo

Ida Di Benedetto

as Pupetta Ferrante

Maria Antonietta Riegel

as Vittoria Pagano, as a teenager

Laura Sodano

as Rosa

Percy Hogan

as American soldier