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The Art of Happiness
The Art of Happiness

The Art of Happiness

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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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Budget

$--

Revenue

$--

Status

Released

Original Language

Italian

Runtime

82 mins

Rating

8.1/10

Release Date

21 November 2013

Country

Italy

Cast

Leandro Amato

Leandro Amato

Sergio Cometa (voice)

Nando Paone

Nando Paone

Alfredo Cometa (voice)

Renato Carpentieri

Renato Carpentieri

Zio Luciano Cometa (voice)

Jun Ichikawa

Jun Ichikawa

Antonia (voice)

Lucio Allocca

Lucio Allocca

padre di Sergio e Alfredo (voice)

Silvia Baritzka

Silvia Baritzka

Lariza (voice)

Francesca Romana Bergamo

Francesca Romana Bergamo

Conduttrice del Radiogiornale (voice)

Antonio Brachi

Antonio Brachi

Maurizio Brachetti, il gallerista (voice)

Iolanda Semez

Iolanda Semez

Sig.ra Pinotta (voice) / madre di Sergio e Alfredo (voice)

Patrizia Di Martino

Patrizia Di Martino

Erika (voice) / Donne napoletane (voice)

Ciro Cesarano

Ciro Cesarano

Nando (voice)

Riccardo Polizzy Carbonelli

Riccardo Polizzy Carbonelli

Speaker (voice)

Luigi Meola

Luigi Meola

Sergio da bambino (voice)

Matteo Russo

Matteo Russo

Alfredo da bambino (voice)

Gennaro Matino

Gennaro Matino

Parroco (voice)

Paola Tortora

Paola Tortora

Donna napoletana dal basso (voice)

Dario Sansone

Dario Sansone

Uomo napoletano dal basso (voice)

Antonio Funaro

Antonio Funaro

Radio Taxi (voice)

Robert Thurman

Robert Thurman

Uomo in TV (voice)

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