Screenings: 12 November 2026 Thursday 20:00 / 17 December 2026 Thursday 20:00 / 14 January 2027 Thursday 20:00
 

Director: Elvira Notari

Screenplay: Elvira Notari

Cast: Rosè Angione, Eduardo Notari, Alberto Danza, Elisa Cava, Antonio Palmieri
 

Italy / 1922 / 61 min. / Black and white / DCP / Silent (Italian intertitles) / Turkish subtitles
 

’A Santanotte is one of the rare surviving works by Elvira Notari, Italian cinema’s first woman director. Inspired by the popular song of the same name by Francesco Buongiovanni and Eduardo Scala, the film brings poverty and violence against women to the screen through melodrama. Nanninella is a young woman forced to support her persistently abusive father on the small wage she earns as a waitress. One day, she falls in love with an honest man named Tore, but their love, too, will suffer from the harsh realities of life in Naples.
 

* We thank Il Cinema Ritrovato and Cineteca di Bologna for their contributions.