Tourists to the southern Italian
islands of Salina off Sicily and Procida in the Campania region
will soon be able to visit the locations immortalised by the
award-winning 1994 film Il postino (The Postman) starring the
charismatic late Neapolitan actor Massimo Troisi and directed by
Michael Radford thanks to a special application for tablet and
smartphone.
The device will be presented on July 1 during the XII
International Conference on Cinetourism to coincide with the
20th anniversary of Troisi's premature death on June 4, 1994,
the day after completing filming for Il Postino, aged 41.
"It is a homage to an extraordinary personality of Italian
cinema who with this film promoted locations in southern Italy
that have become destinations for cinetourists from all over the
world," Michelangelo Messina, director of Ischia Film Festival,
said.
The initiative is part of the film festival's project
Cinema and Territory that has already led to the creation of an
app on cinema locations in Campania.
Troisi had already earned Italian acclaim for several
successful films including Ricomincio da tre (1981), Scusate il
ritardo (1983) and non ci resta che piangere (1985) in which he
co-starred with Roberto Benigni, before gaining posthumous
international regognition for his role in Il Postino as Mario
Ruoppolo, a local fisherman who acts as postman to the exiled
Chilean poet Pablo Neruda (played by Philippe Noiret) and learns
to love poetry as a result.
The film is set largely in the harbour on Procida and in a
small property overlooking the black sand beach of Rinella on
Salina in Sicily's Aeolian islands, itself a prominent feature
of the movie.
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