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The Art of Happiness
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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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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Genre:Animation, Drama
Written By:Luciano Stella, Alessandro Rak
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Runtime:82 minutes
Studio:Big Sur, RAI Cinema, Istituto Luce Cinecittà, Mad Entertainment
Cast
Alessandro Rak
Director
Leandro Amato
Sergio Cometa (voice)
Nando Paone
Alfredo Cometa (voice)
Renato Carpentieri
Zio Luciano Cometa (voice)
Jun Ichikawa
Antonia (voice)
Lucio Allocca
padre di Sergio e Alfredo (voice)
Silvia Baritzka
Lariza (voice)
Francesca Romana Bergamo
Conduttrice del Radiogiornale (voice)
Antonio Brachi
Maurizio Brachetti, il gallerista (voice)
Iolanda Semez
Sig.ra Pinotta (voice) / madre di Sergio e Alfredo (voice)
Patrizia Di Martino
Erika (voice) / Donne napoletane (voice)
Ciro Cesarano
Nando (voice)
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