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The Art of Happiness
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The Art of Happiness

2013-11-21 · 82 min · ★ 8.0

Animation · Drama

Sergio driving a taxi in a white Naples overflowing sadness and garbage. Pouring rain leads her clients through the city trying to process the death of his brother, who started ten years earlier for Tibet and never returned. A pop singer, a recycler of fragments of life, a radio announcer, an old uncle, alternate seats on its bearing, each in its own way, a trace of his brother loved. Stubborn not to go over and get lost in an endless race, Sergio is overwhelmed by memories and the music produced in pairs with Alfredo, which in Buddhism and in its foundations had found the strength to cope with the disease. Those notes that he believed buried and laid to always return overbearing and demanding a soundboard that resonate and express his being sound. Putting his hand on the piano, Sergio Alfredo feel again, giving the past with the present and realizing itself in the feeling.

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Directors
Alessandro Rak
Production companies
Big Sur, RAI Cinema, Istituto Luce Cinecittà, Mad Entertainment
Countries
Italy
Status
Released

Top Cast

Leandro AmatoLeandro AmatoSergio Cometa (voice)
Nando PaoneNando PaoneAlfredo Cometa (voice)
Renato CarpentieriRenato CarpentieriZio Luciano Cometa (voice)
Jun IchikawaJun IchikawaAntonia (voice)
Lucio AlloccaLucio Alloccapadre di Sergio e Alfredo (voice)
Silvia BaritzkaLariza (voice)
Francesca Romana BergamoFrancesca Romana BergamoConduttrice del Radiogiornale (voice)
Antonio BrachiMaurizio Brachetti, il gallerista (voice)
Iolanda SemezSig.ra Pinotta (voice) / madre di Sergio e Alfredo (voice)
Patrizia Di MartinoErika (voice) / Donne napoletane (voice)
Ciro CesaranoNando (voice)
Riccardo Polizzy CarbonelliRiccardo Polizzy CarbonelliSpeaker (voice)
Luigi MeolaSergio da bambino (voice)
Matteo RussoAlfredo da bambino (voice)
Gennaro MatinoParroco (voice)
Paola TortoraDonna napoletana dal basso (voice)
Dario SansoneUomo napoletano dal basso (voice)
Antonio FunaroRadio Taxi (voice)
Robert ThurmanUomo in TV (voice)

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