(ANSA) - ROME, NOV 13 - Italy's 1991 Oscar winner with
Mediterraneo Gabriele Salvatores tells the tale of a pair of
Neapolitan street urchins or scugnizzi who try their luck in
America in his latest film, from a 1950s script by Federico
Fellini, titled Napoli-New York.
The avowedly 'neo-realist' movie, hitting screens November 21,
had its press premiere in Rome Wednesday.
It starts off in a Naples still destroyed by the war and moves
to a totally fantastic New York in full-on Fellini dream style,
but "where the two kids discover, together with the wonder, that
Italians are the object of a racism equal to that towards
blacks," said the 74-year-old Naples native. (ANSA).