CYCLE: DIRECTOR

From 12.11. To 17.11.2007.

Second Review of Contemporary Italian Film

Vincenzo Marra

18.09.1972, Naples

Vincenzo Marra was born in Naples on September 18, 1972. After working as a sports photographer, in 1996 he started to work in film and made two short films Una rosa prego and La vestizione. He worked as an assistant to director Mario Martone in the theatre (I sette contro Tebe) and in film (Teatro di guerra) as well as to Mario Bechis on Garage Olimpo. He won the Solinas award for the screenplay for Giorno per giorno. Tornando a casa is his first feature film.

Filmography

E.A.M. - Estranei alla massa (2001)
Tornando a casa (2001)
Vento di terra (2003)
L'udienza e aperta (2006)
L'ora di punta (2007)

Films by this director

L' udienza e aperta

(2006)

Directed by: Vincenzo Marra

PHOTOGRAPHY: Mario Amura

Synopsis:

One day at a court in Naples: the protagonists are a seventy-year-old judge, his forty-five-year-old advisor Elena and the most famous criminal law attorney in Naples. They are all in charge of a mafia-related case. However, the film doesn’t only focus on the criminal case but also goes deep into these people’s lives, questions their way of being and the Italian judicial system.

color, 35 mm, 75 min

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