Beneath the Same Moon
 

Director: Carlo Luglio
Screenplay: Carlo Luglio, Gaetano Di Vaio
Photography: Antonio Grambone (A.I.C.)
Music: Riccardo Veno
Cast: Franco Melone, Oliver Andelkovic, Samantha Andelkovic, Pavel Nenadosky, Nino Smajovic, Salvatore Ruocco, Giuliana Corona, Ketty Adams
Editing: Marzia Mete
Production: Figli del Bronx, supported by: Assessorato all’Istruzione Regione Campania, Centro documentazione Anticamorra, Assessorato alla Pace e all’Immigrazione Provincia di Napoli; produced by Luca Liguori, Gaetano Di Vaio, Dario Cortucci
International Distribution: Figli del Bronx, tel. +39 081 404888,
e-mail: pilto@libero.it
Year: 2005. Running Time: 92’
 
In Beneath the Same Moon, Neapolitan director Carlo Luglio gives us a close-up view of the hardships faced by two young Rom gypsies living on the outskirts of Naples. While one struggles to earn a living, the other is tempted by easier gains. They are part of an unsavory environment run by local mafia lords at war with each other. Luglio’s drama draws a parallel between the squalor of life inside and outside the Rom camp, emphasizing the people’s enormous vitality and love of life that gets them through nearly impossible situations and, in the end, sorrowfully pushes them to move on.
   
     
  

     

   
   

   

    

       
 
                      
                         

      
Carlo Luglio 
He studied Cinema History and in 2003 he made his first feature film North Cape, which won awards at international festivals. The subject matter of the film was one to which he would subsequently return: people living on the fringes of society. Since 2004 he has been involved with the association “Figli del Bronx” and has worked in nomad camps in the Neapolitan suburbs. With these people Carlo Luglio made Beneath the Same Moon just at the time the mafia feuds were breaking out in the city.