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'The Art of Happiness' is a 2013 Italian animated drama film written and directed by Alessandro Rak, at his directorial debut. It opened the International Critics' Week at the 70th Venice International Film Festival.



Plot



Sergio works as a taxi driver in Naples; under a heavy rain, he brings his customers through the increasingly degraded city. At the same time he tries to cope with the death of his brother, who departed for Tibet ten years before and never returned. On the seats of his taxi a singer, a radio speaker, an old uncle and other characters alternate, and each of them brings a trace of his missing brother.

Cast



* Leandro Amato as 'Sergio Cometa'

** Luigi Meola as 'Young Sergio'

* Nando Paone as 'Alfredo Cometa'

** Matteo Russo as Young Alfredo

* Renato Carpentieri as 'Luciano Cometa'

* Jun Ichikawa as 'Antonia'

* Lucio Allocca as 'Sergio' and Alfredo's Father

* Iolanda Semez as 'Mrs. Pinotta', Sergio and Alfredo's mother.

* Patrizia Di Martino as 'Erika'

* Antonio Brachi as 'Maurizio Brachetti'

* Ciro Cesarano as 'Nando'

* Silvia Baritska as 'Lariza'

* Riccardo Polizzy Carbonelli as Speaker

* Gennaro Matino as himself, the priest in Alfredo's funeral.

* Paola Tortora as Woman in Bass

* Dario Sansone as Man in Bass

* Antonio Funaro as the voice of the taxi's radio.

* Francesca Romana Bergamo as the voice of the radio news

* Robert Thurman as himself

Accolades



'The Art of Happiness' won the award for best animated film at the 27th European Film Awards.

It also won the audience's award for Best Feature Film at the 2014 Raindance Film Festival.

References






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