Personal Info
Birth date
1959-11-20 (65 Years)
Gender
Male
Known for
Directing
Place of birth
Naples, Campania, Italy
Also known as
Марио Мартоне
Mario Martone
Biography
Mario Martone (born 20 November 1959; Naples) is an Italian film/theatre director and screenwriter. He has directed more than 30 films since 1985. His film "Troubling Love" (1995) was entered into the 48th Cannes Film Festival. His film "We Believed" (2010) competed for the Golden Lion at the 67th Venice International Film Festival. His film "Nostalgia" (2022) entered into the 75th Cannes Film Festival for the first time in 24 years. He was the stage director for Lorenzo Ferrero's opera Charlotte Corday, which was premiered at Teatro dell'Opera di Roma on 21 February 1989.
Filmography
Heart of the Festival
4
Overview:
A short film containing some of the highlights of the Cannes Film Festival's storied history.Troubling Love
6
Overview:
When her elderly mother is found dead under sordid circumstances, Delia returns to her native Naples for the first time in years to attend the funeral. Trying to piece together her estranged parent's secret life, she'll face the hidden memories that shaped her family history.Nostalgia
6.9
Overview:
Felice returns to his native Rione Sanità in Naples to look after his dying mother, having lived abroad for the last forty years. Here he discovers that his old friend Oreste has become a notorious crimeboss.Fuori
6.581
Overview:
Rome. The 1980s. After the magnum opus The Art of Joy she has been working on for a decade is rejected by the Italian publishing world, writer Goliarda Sapienza commits a desperate theft that costs her her reputation and social position. Incarcerated in Italy’s largest female prison, she finds herself living alongside thieves, junkies, sex workers and revolutionaries. After her release, she continues to meet with these women and over the course of a sweltering summer, a life-changing relationship flowers – a relationship that will reawaken her the desire to live and to write.The King of Laughter
7.497
Overview:
In early 20th-century Naples, a theatrical parody lands beloved thespian and playwright Eduardo Scarpetta in court, facing a malicious lawsuit that could compromise his freedom of expression and the economic security of his extended family—including his son's, young Eduardo De Filippo.The Scent of Blood
5.7
Overview:
A couple of bourgeois intellectuals, Carlo and Silvia, have been married for twenty years. While she lives in their flat in Rome, he spends most of his time in the country house where he writes his books, openly living with his younger lover, Lù. In return, Carlo has long accepted that her wife may have lovers, but her volatile relationship with a young neo-fascist suddenly rekindles his jealousy.Death of a Neapolitan Mathematician
6.794
Overview:
Naples, 1959. Pure Mathematics professor Renato Caccioppoli, Bakunin's grandson, is a tortured soul. Recently discharged from the psychiatric hospital, left by his wife, and increasingly disillusioned with academia and the Communist Party, he lives his last days with painful detachment.Leopardi
6.809
Overview:
In 19th-century Italy, Giacomo Leopardi channels his debilitating illness and isolation into poetry.Capri-Revolution
6.407
Overview:
In 1914, with Italy on the cusp of joining World War I, a group of foreign artists establishes a commune on the rural island of Capri, catching the attention of young Lucia, a local illiterate shepherdess who soon falls under their spell.Rehearsals for War
7.2
Overview:
A group of actors meet with little money in a unofficial theatre in Naples' Spanish Boroughs. Director's plan is to travel to Sarajevo, still under siege, to stage a classic Eschilus' play about civil war in Tebe. While they rehearse in the theatre cast members come and go and another kind of war goes on every day in nearby streets of old Naples.The Mayor of Rione Sanità
6.107
Overview:
Antonio Barracano is a respected man among the Neapolitan underworld, keeping order and administering justice according to his own criteria, beyond the law. One day he's faced with a dilemma after a young man asks him permission to kill his father.Searching for Valentina: The World of Guido Crepax
8
Overview:
1965: Paris, London and Milan all move at the same fast pace, fueled by a fresh creative and rebellious impetus. Guido Crepax picks up on this energy and transfers it to a comic strip in which art, music, design, film and fashion all blend together, breaking with traditional narrative structure. The dreamy photographer Valentina becomes Crepax' alter ego: as lovely as Louise Brooks, as disturbing as one of Lucio Fontana's slashed canvases, as knowing as Bob Dylan's lyrics, and as freewheeling as Charlie Parker's compositions.Roman Summer
6.9
Overview:
Rome, Esquilino, summer. Rossella returns to Rome after years of absence and returns to her home, rented to her friend Salvatore, the set designer. The woman is gripped by an evident depression and wanders around the city that she does not recognize and that no longer recognizes her. People have changed and Rossella finds no one capable of answering the obsessive question that has plagued her for some time: "How can I disappear?"Ferrante Fever
6.1
Overview:
Hillary Clinton, Roberto Saviano, Jonathan Franzen and others weigh-in on the Elena Ferrante "craze" and what makes her work - and her mysterious persona - so uniquely captivating.We Believed
6.6
Overview:
1828. In the wake of the repression of revolutionary uprisings in the monarchist South, three young friends join Giuseppe Mazzini's patriotic cause, seeking to finally unify Italy under a republican government. Their idealism will clash with the inevitable disillusionment as they grow apart over the following fifty years.Verdi: Falstaff
NYR
Overview:
Falstaff is Verdi’s masterpiece of comic opera, in which the behaviour of the ageing Sir John Falstaff, a devious freeloader and would-be ladykiller, causes uproar in the petty-bourgeois household of the Windsor’s. In this performance stage and film director Mario Martone updates the action to the present day and shows Falstaff as ageing rebel in dodgy sideburns and leather jacket.Un'altra Italia era possibile - Il cinema di Giuseppe De Santis
NYR
Overview:
The documentary aims to tell the story of a director who managed to capture the attention of the whole world and, due to his political and aesthetic coherence, was able to work much less than he deserved. It's the story of a film professor who earned the gratitude and affection of all his students. The tale of a cinephile who successfully combined social and civic commitment with a spectacular talent worthy of Hollywood.The Vesuvians
5
Overview:
Five Neapolitan directors depict life in the city under the shadow of Mount Vesuvius for this anthology film of comedy, drama, surrealism, and political commentary.Massimo Troisi: Somebody Down There Likes Me
7.8
Overview:
The life of a dying young man at the short age of only forty-one after playing the lead in Il postino. He was a brilliant stage actor before becoming an astonishing film director.Another World Is Possible
NYR
Overview:
Many communities were founded to improve the world in the second half of the last century. India with its enormous historic potential of celebrated spirituality and a generous attitude to other life forms, became the home to many of these communes seeking meaning. The 2,200 members of the 'Auroville' community in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu have turned their back on the capitalist way.Westmoreland Naples
NYR
Overview:
Allen Ginsberg is reading his poetry in the Trianon movie theater, which is a historical red light theater in Naples. At the same time, the hardcore film, Tutta una vita, is being projected. A member of the audience in his sixties drops off to sleep. His dream leads us to the edge of madness. There are readings of beat generation poetry, pop music trailers, impossible cinematographic screen tests, and special remakes of cinema-images by the most important exponents of the old and new "Neapolitan poetic".In the Eyes
NYR
Overview:
Documentary about the life and career of Vittorio Mezzogiorno through the voice of his daughter Giovanna.The Bassarids - Theatro dell’Opera di Roma
NYR
Overview:
The conflict between human rationality and emotional control, represented by the King of Thebes, Pentheus, and unbridled human passion, represented by the god Dionysus.Hindemith: Sancta Susanna
NYR
Overview:
Klementia, who has been a nun for several years, is troubled by an apparition of Saint Susanna. The latter, performed by Anna Caterina Antonacci, lifts the veil on a carnal world she finds disturbing. Encouraged to confide by this awakening, Klementia recounts the passion of a young girl in the convent who many years before had stripped naked and embraced the body of Christ on the Cross. Darkness and light, life and death, body and soul all struggle and dialogue in this short, smouldering work in which the biblical figure of Susanna takes on an unparalleled psychological dimension.Acting
2024Per sempre al Massimo as Unknown
2023Totò e il Principe De Curtis. L'uomo oltre la maschera as Unknown
2023Un'altra Italia era possibile - Il cinema di Giuseppe De Santis as Self
2023Viva Viviani as Sé stesso
2023Massimo Troisi: Somebody Down There Likes Me as Sé stesso
2021Felicità - La stagione della rinascita as Guest
2020Costellazione Bertolucci as Self
2019Searching for Valentina: The World of Guido Crepax as Himself
2018Buon compleanno Carlo Verdone! as Self
2018Meraviglie - La penisola dei tesori (1 Episode) as Self - Director
2017Ferrante Fever as Unknown
2017Pina Bausch a Roma as Self
2015I Don't Know the Men of this City as Self
2015Mario Martone: Premio alla carriera as Self
2009In the Eyes as Self
2002Pier Paolo Pasolini and the Reason of a Dream as Self
2002Heart of the Festival as self
1996Westmoreland Naples as Unknown
1996Aspettando Totò as Self
Writing
2025Fuori ... Writer
2023Un ritratto in movimento - Omaggio a Mimmo Jodice ... Writer
2023Massimo Troisi: Somebody Down There Likes Me ... Screenplay, Story
2022Nostalgia ... Screenplay, Story
2021The King of Laughter ... Screenplay, Story
2019The Mayor of Rione Sanità ... Screenplay
2018Capri-Revolution ... Story, Screenplay
2014Leopardi ... Screenplay
2010We Believed ... Dialogue, Screenplay, Co-Writer, Script Editor, Script Consultant
2005Caravaggio, the Last Act ... Writer
2004The Scent of Blood ... Writer
2001Nella Napoli di Luca Giordano ... Writer
2000Un posto al mondo ... Writer
1998Rehearsals for War ... Screenplay, Writer, Idea, Story
1998Appunti da Santarcangelo ... Writer
1998The Earth Quakes ... Writer
1997The Vesuvians ... Writer
1996Badolato, 10 dicembre 1995. Per Antonio Neiwiller ... Writer
1996Una storia Saharawi ... Writer
1995Troubling Love ... Screenplay
1994Antonio Mastronunzio pittore sannita ... Writer
1993Luciano Amelio/Terrae motus ... Writer
1993Veglia ... Writer
1993Razor ... Screenplay
1992Death of a Neapolitan Mathematician ... Screenplay, Story
1985Nella città barocca ... Writer
1984Perfidi incanti ... Writer
Directing
2025Fuori ... Director
2025La Scala: Eugene Onegin ... Director
2023Un ritratto in movimento - Omaggio a Mimmo Jodice ... Director
2023Massimo Troisi: Somebody Down There Likes Me ... Director
2022Nostalgia ... Director
2022La Bohème ... Director
2021The King of Laughter ... Director
2021La Traviata ... Stage Director
2020Il barbiere di Siviglia ... Director
2019The Mayor of Rione Sanità ... Director
2018Capri-Revolution ... Director
2018Verdi: Falstaff ... Stage Director
2017Giordano: Andrea Chénier - Teatro alla Scala ... Stage Director
2016Hindemith: Sancta Susanna ... Director
2016Mascagni: Cavallera Rusticana ... Director
2015The Bassarids - Theatro dell’Opera di Roma ... Director
2015Pastorale cilentana ... Director
2014Leopardi ... Director
2014Beethoven: Fidelio ... Stage Director
2013Rossini - Matilde di Shabran ... Stage Director
2011Small Moral Works ... Director
2011La meditazione di Hayez ... Director
2011Cavalleria rusticana - Pagliacci ... Stage Director
2010We Believed ... Director
2008Verdi: Un Ballo in Maschera ... Stage Director
2007Torvaldo e Dorliska ... Stage Director
2005Caravaggio, the Last Act ... Director
2005Così venne ucciso Pasolini ... Director
2004The Scent of Blood ... Director
2001Lulu ... Director
2001Nella Napoli di Luca Giordano ... Director
2001Another World Is Possible ... Assistant Director
2001I dieci comandamenti ... Director
2000Un posto al mondo ... Director
2000Così Fan Tutte - Teatro Comunale di Ferrara ... Director
1998Rehearsals for War ... Director
1998Una disperata vitalità ... Director
1998Appunti da Santarcangelo ... Director
1998The Earth Quakes ... Director
1997The Vesuvians ... Director
1997La salita ... Director
1996Badolato, 10 dicembre 1995. Per Antonio Neiwiller ... Director
1996Una storia Saharawi ... Director
1996Finale di Partita ... Director
1995Troubling Love ... Director
1994The Only Country In The World ... Director
1994Miracoli - Storie per corti ... Director
1994Antonio Mastronunzio pittore sannita ... Director
1993Luciano Amelio/Terrae motus ... Director
1993Veglia ... Director
1993Razor ... Director
1992Death of a Neapolitan Mathematician ... Director
1990I Persiani ... Director
1986Prologo a Ritorno ad Alphaville ... Director
1986Il desiderio preso per la coda ... Director
1985Nella città barocca ... Director
1985Carlo Zago ... Stage Director
1985Nessun dove - Studi su immagini di Napoli ... Director
1984Perfidi incanti ... Director
1983Glacial Tango ... Stage Director
1982Foresta nera ... Director