written and directed by Valerio Ciriaci
with Giuliana Bruno, Cristina Vatielli, Flavia Amabile, Francesca Consonni
special guest Teresa Saponangelo
and with Gianluca Farinelli, Giuliana Muscio, Mario Franco, Simona Frasca, Pippo Santonastaso, Matteo Cirillo, Michele Signore, Antonella Monetti, Maria Assunta Pimpinelli, Lucio Senatore, Giuseppe Solla
editing Francesca Sofia Allegra
director of photography Isaak Liptzin
score Silvia Cignoli
sound design and re-recording mix Stefano Di Fiore
archive producer Marianna Paladini
added editing and VFX Giovanni Pompetti
color correction Simona Infante
produced by Antonella Di Nocera
coproduced by Isaak Liptzin, Valerio Ciriaci
associate producer Mila Tenaglia
distribution Cinecittà
a production by Parallelo 41 produzioni, Awen Films, Luce Cinecittà
with the contribution of Ministero della Cultura – Direzione Generale Cinema e Audiovisivo, Fondo per lo sviluppo degli investimenti nel cinema e nell’audiovisivo, Regione Campania, Film Commission Regione Campania, Comune di Napoli
with support of Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia – Cineteca Nazionale, Cineteca di Bologna
in collaboration with Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò (NYU), Archivio Audiovisivo del Movimento Operaio e Democratico
patronage by Comune di Salerno, Comune di Cava dei Tirreni, Comitato Nazionale per i 150 anni Elvira Coda Notari
Just three feature films, two short documentaries and a few fragments, 163 minutes in all, is what remains of the filmography of Elvira Notari, Italy's first female director. If her life remains partly an enigma -- she left no letters or diaries, and few photographs depict her -- her work is at the center of renewed interest after decades of oblivion. A protagonist of the golden age of Neapolitan silent film, Elvira made some 60 feature films that, interweaving popular culture and an authentic look at city life, won audiences from Naples to Little Italy in the United States. With the arrival of sound, and affected by Fascist censorship, she left filmmaking in 1930. Her work fell into silence and most of her films were lost. Today, 150 years after her birth, Elvira returns to center stage thanks to the work of scholars and artists who are recovering her legacy and reinterpreting it through the creation of new works. Interweaving historical memory and contemporary rediscovery, Elvira Notari. Oltre il silenzio restores a vivid and articulate portrait of a pioneer of cinema that resonates again in the present.
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