''I fratelli De Filippo'' () is a 2021 Italian biographical comedy-drama film co-written and directed by Sergio Rubini. The film tells the story of actors Eduardo, Peppino and Titina De Filippo, and their complex relationship with their father, the playwright and stage actor

Eduardo Scarpetta Eduardo Scarpetta (13 March 1853 – 12 November 1925) was an Italian actor and playwright from Naples. Biography Although not from a theatrical family, he was on the stage by the age of four and is today best remembered as the creator of a c ...

Plot

Cast

* Mario Autore as Eduardo De Filippo * Domenico Pinelli as

Peppino De Filippo Peppino De Filippo (born Giuseppe De Filippo; 24 August 1903 – 27 January 1980) was an Italian actor. De Filippo was born in Naples, brother of actor and dramatist Eduardo De Filippo and of Titina De Filippo. He made his stage debut at th ...

* Anna Ferraioli Ravel as Titina De Filippo * Giancarlo Giannini as

* Susy Del Giudice as Luisa De Filippo * Biagio Izzo as Vincenzo Scarpetta *

Marisa Laurito Marisa Laurito (born 19 April 1951) is an Italian actress, singer and television personality. Life and career Born in Naples, Laurito debuted at a very young age entering the stage company of Eduardo De Filippo.Aldo Grasso, Massimo Scaglioni, ''En ...

as Rosa De Filippo *

Marianna Fontana Marianna Fontana (born 24 April 1997) is an Italian actress and singer. She starred with her twin sister Angela in Indivisible and had the lead role in Capri-Revolution. She played Ilia in the epic TV-series ''Romulus Romulus () was the legen ...

as Adele Carloni-De Filippo *

Maurizio Casagrande Maurizio Casagrande (born 4 November 1961) is an Italian actor and film and stage director. Life and career Born in Naples, the son of the actor and director Antonio, Casagrande studied as a baritone at the Conservatorio di San Pietro a Maj ...

as Giacomo Cinque * Giovanni Esposito as Capece *

Nicola Di Pinto Nicola Di Pinto (born 12 June 1947) is an Italian actor. He appeared in more than seventy films since 1974. Filmography References External links * 1947 births Living people Italian male film actors {{Italy-actor-stub ...

as Carluccio * Augusto Zucchi as Impresario from Milan * Lucianna De Falco as Moneylender * Jennifer Bianchi as Dorothy Pennington * Francesco Maccarinelli as Pietro Carloni * Antonio Milo as Aulicino * Maurizio Micheli as Nicola Urcioli * Lucienne Perreca as Maria Scarpetta * Tiziana Tirrito as Tina Pica *

Vincenzo Salemme Vincenzo Salemme (born 24 July 1957) is an Italian actor, playwright, director and screenwriter. Life and career Born in Bacoli, Province of Naples, Salemme began his career in 1976, with the stage company of Tato Russo. The following year h ...

as Riccardo Ruggiti

Release

The film premiered at the Rome Film Festival, and was released in Italian cinemas on 13 December 2021.

Reception

The film was nominated for six

David di Donatello Awards The David di Donatello Awards, named after Donatello's ''David'', a symbolic statue of the Italian Renaissance, are film awards given out each year by the ''Accademia del Cinema Italiano'' (The Academy of Italian Cinema). There are 26 award cat ...

, winning the award for best score. The score by

Nicola Piovani Nicola Piovani (born 26 May 1946) is an Italian light-classical musician, theater and film score composer, and winner of the 1998 Best Original Dramatic Score Oscar for the score of the Roberto Benigni film ''La Vita è bella'', better known to ...

also won the

Nastro d'Argento The Nastro d'Argento, also known by its translated name Silver Ribbon, is an Italian film award awarded each year since 1946 by the Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists (Italian: ''Sindacato Nazionale Giornalisti Cinematografici Italiani ...

in the same category. The film also received the 2022

Ciak d'oro ''Ciak'' is a popular Italian film magazine published in Milan, Italy. It is the most popular film magazine in Italy. The title is the Italian word (also spelled ''ciac'', for a film clapperboard. History and profile ''Ciak'' was established in 1 ...

for best film of the year and for best actress (Susy Del Giudice).

References

External links

* {{Authority control 2021 films Films directed by Sergio Rubini 2020s Italian films 2020s Italian-language films 2021 comedy-drama films 2021 biographical drama films Films scored by Nicola Piovani