Cinema Eliseo | at 6.30pm
Directed by: Toni D’Angelo
Starring: Nino D’Angelo, Toni D’Angelo
Year: 2025
Country: Italy
Running Time: 90′
Produced by: Isola Produzioni with Rai Cinema, Mad Entertainment, Stefano Francioni Produzioni, and Di.Elle.O. In collaboration with Waterclock and Archivio del Movimento Operaio e Democratico ETS
Distributed by: Nexo Studios
Plot: In the 1980s, Nino D’Angelo was the most famous blonde bob in Italy after Raffaella Carrà. Today, he no longer has a bob and no longer sings the songs that made him famous back then, such as “’Nu jeans e ‘na maglietta.” His hair has turned gray, even though he still gets it cut by the same barber who invented the bob. He lives in Rome, surrounded by his large family, and his music—which he composes in a small studio on the Cassia—has the sound of the Mediterranean. His latest concert at the Maradona Stadium in Naples is a definitive farewell to the 1980s, to the bob, and to that type of music. Sharing this moment with him, hidden behind a cell phone, is his son, Toni, a director. He peppers him with questions, recording everything, especially the most intimate moments. Who was his father in the 1980s? How did he rise from absolute poverty to success and wealth? And why, once he had achieved success, when Toni was a child, did they have to leave the city that had made his father famous? To find answers to these questions, in “NINO. 18 GIORNI” Toni D’Angelo follows his father around Italy, during the stages of his tour or the organization of new events, and, at the same time, takes him back to the places of his childhood: San Pietro a Patierno, the neighborhood of Naples where he grew up, and Casoria, a town on the outskirts of Naples where he became a man, a singer, and a father. The prelude to this journey was the 18 days Nino spent in Palermo: when Toni was born, Nino was there, busy with the first play that made him famous. It was an unexpected success that lasted a long time and delayed the meeting between father and son by 18 days. Today, years later, Nino and Toni—who has become a father himself—are trying to reclaim that lost time to rediscover and reconnect with each other.