From championships on the field to in the cinema. “Ag4in“, the documentary dedicated to Napoli’s victory last spring, hit the jackpot. Highest gross of the season: 1.3 million, the highest figure for a documentary on the national circuit. And from Saturday 22nd it will be broadcast on Sky and Now. The figures remind us Giuseppe Marco Albanodirector chosen by De Laurentiis (club president and chairman of Filmauro) to carry out this work which is appreciated throughout Italy because there are Napoli fans everywhere. Lucano di Bernalda (“From here the family Francis Ford Coppola», he wanted to underline), proud of his first rank.
“Confession for president and producer De Laurentiisfor the teams I work with and for the players who win championships. And it is also a positive sign because Italian cinema is experiencing difficulties: it is important to fill some cinemas. There is a certain satisfaction with this figure compared to those who invested 30 million and collected small amounts of funds. And this was made possible thanks to the passion of the fans who came to cinemas across Italy to experience these extraordinary football moments together again,” said Albano.
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There are differences with the third scudetto documentary, “Un giorno all’improv”, due to appear in cinemas a few months after the victory on May 4 2023, with Spalletti who coaches the national team. “Two years ago it was decided to do it at the end of the season, but in our case everything is done as a work in progress, between ups and downs, bad moods and injuries. We writers hoped that the moment would come and it happened.” A journey into the emotions of the dressing room, highlighting the relationships between Count and the team, between praise and attack, Antonio always with a high pitched voice and his right hand above his head to indicate the bar is about to be raised. These are now complicated days for Napoli, with some even questioning the manager’s leadership. The director of the fourth championship documentary talks about his Prince. “I don’t know what happened, last year was different because I could see what was happening in the dressing room where I was welcomed and I did my job as best as I could. I remember how I felt last season about the relationship between Conte and the team. The players considered him their captain, they trusted him, as also appears in various interviews in the documentary. There were moments of anger, we talked about it: it’s part of each of our jobs.” Situations of tension, such as happiness or anger, always see Conte as the center, the “captain” of the dressing room, as defined by the director.
Friday the 21st “Ag4in” will be awarded at the Matera Sports Film Festival. One more confession after being shown in cinemas. «Sometimes you may think that a documentary will appear on a platform so you would rather wait than go to the cinema. This is not the case with “Ag4in”. The reason is that Neapolitans want to relive the emotions of the four-day party – from the victory over Cagliari to the seaside promenade on Via Caracciolo – after several months. And, as announced by De Laurentiis, work on a third film about the life of Napoli is underway, in the hope of telling the story of the scudetto or another trophy: at the beginning of December, the Azzurri’s journey in the Italian Cup began and just before Christmas there was the promise in Riyadh of the Super Cup, which was lost two years ago due to an Inter goal. Lautaro in the 91st minute against the team Mazzarri outnumbered. The crew – who handles the club’s social content – has already started work.
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“I continue to follow Napoli, it is clear that he remains connected with that environment. I have always breathed Neapolitan culture, I knew less about the football team and the strong passion of the fans. An interesting experience from a human point of view. And I hope to experience more in my career”, says the forty-year-old Albano, born in 1985, a year after his arrival in Maradona in Naples. It was he who ignited the first emotions and shot the first extraordinary films.
