
Mario Martone
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- November 20, 1959
- Birthplace
- Naples, Campania, Italy
Mario Martone (born 20 November 1959; Naples) is an Italian film/theatre director and screenwriter. He has directed more than 30 films since 1985. His film "Troubling Love" (1995) was entered into the 48th Cannes Film Festival. His film "We Believed" (2010) competed for the Golden Lion at the 67th Venice International Film Festival. His film "Nostalgia" (2022) entered into the 75th Cannes Film Festival for the first time in 24 years. He was the stage director for Lorenzo Ferrero's opera Charlotte Corday, which was premiered at Teatro dell'Opera di Roma on 21 February 1989.
Filmography

Trick 2026
Director, Screenplay

Medea 2025
Director

Fuori 2025
Writer, Director
- Tchaikovsky: Eugene Onegin - Teatro alla Scala
Tchaikovsky: Eugene Onegin - Teatro alla Scala 2025
Director

Per sempre al Massimo 2024
Actor

Un ritratto in movimento - Omaggio a Mimmo Jodice 2023
Director, Writer

Scarrozzanti e Spiritelli: 50 Years of the Franco Parenti Theatre 2023
Actor

Totò e il Principe De Curtis - L'uomo oltre la maschera 2023
Actor

Un'altra Italia era possibile - Il cinema di Giuseppe De Santis 2023
as Self

Viva Viviani 2023
as Sé stesso

Massimo Troisi: Somebody Down There Likes Me 2023
as Sé stesso, Director, Screenplay, Story

Nostalgia 2022
Screenplay, Director, Story

La Bohème 2022
Director

The King of Laughter 2021
Screenplay, Story, Director
- Felicità - La stagione della rinascita
Felicità - La stagione della rinascita 2021
as Guest

La Traviata 2021
Production Design, Stage Director
- Costellazione Bertolucci
Costellazione Bertolucci 2020
as Self

Il barbiere di Siviglia 2020
Director

The Mayor of Rione Sanità 2019
Screenplay, Director

Searching for Valentina: The World of Guido Crepax 2019
as Himself

Capri-Revolution 2018
Story, Director, Screenplay
- Buon compleanno Carlo Verdone!
Buon compleanno Carlo Verdone! 2018
as Self

Verdi: Falstaff 2018
Stage Director

Giordano: Andrea Chénier - Teatro alla Scala 2017
Stage Director

Ferrante Fever 2017
Actor

Pina Bausch a Roma 2017
as Self

Hindemith: Sancta Susanna 2016
Director

Mascagni: Cavallera Rusticana 2016
Director

The Bassarids - Theatro dell’Opera di Roma 2015
Director

I Don't Know the Men of this City 2015
as Self
- Pastorale cilentana
Pastorale cilentana 2015
Director
- Mario Martone: Premio alla carriera
Mario Martone: Premio alla carriera 2015
as Self

Leopardi 2014
Director, Screenplay
- Beethoven: Fidelio
Beethoven: Fidelio 2014
Stage Director

Rossini - Matilde di Shabran 2013
Stage Director
- Small Moral Works
Small Moral Works 2011
Director
- La meditazione di Hayez
La meditazione di Hayez 2011
Director

Cavalleria rusticana / Pagliacci - Teatro alla Scala 2011
Stage Director, Director

We Believed 2010
Dialogue, Director, Screenplay, Script Consultant, Script, Script Editor, Co-Writer
- In the Eyes
In the Eyes 2009
as Self

Verdi: Un Ballo in Maschera 2008
Stage Director
- Torvaldo e Dorliska
Torvaldo e Dorliska 2007
Stage Director
- Caravaggio, the Last Act
Caravaggio, the Last Act 2005
Director, Writer

Così venne ucciso Pasolini 2005
Director

The Scent of Blood 2004
Director, Writer

Pier Paolo Pasolini and the Reason of a Dream 2002
as Self
- Lulu
Lulu 2001
Director
- Nella Napoli di Luca Giordano
Nella Napoli di Luca Giordano 2001
Director, Writer

Another World Is Possible 2001
Assistant Director
- I dieci comandamenti
I dieci comandamenti 2001
Director

Roman Summer 2000
Thanks
- Un posto al mondo
Un posto al mondo 2000
Writer, Director

Così Fan Tutte - Teatro Comunale di Ferrara 2000
Director

Rehearsals for War 1998
Screenplay, Director, Writer, Idea, Story
- Una disperata vitalità
Una disperata vitalità 1998
Director
- Appunti da Santarcangelo
Appunti da Santarcangelo 1998
Director, Writer
- The Earth Quakes
The Earth Quakes 1998
Director, Writer

The Vesuvians 1997
Director, Writer
- La salita
La salita 1997
Director
- Badolato, 10 dicembre 1995. Per Antonio Neiwiller
Badolato, 10 dicembre 1995. Per Antonio Neiwiller 1996
Director, Writer

A Sahrawi story 1996
Director, Writer
- Westmoreland Naples
Westmoreland Naples 1996
Actor
- Finale di Partita
Finale di Partita 1996
Director

Aspettando Totò 1996
as Self

Troubling Love 1995
Screenplay, Director
- The Only Country In The World
The Only Country In The World 1994
Director
- Miracoli - Storie per corti
Miracoli - Storie per corti 1994
Director
- Antonio Mastronunzio pittore sannita
Antonio Mastronunzio pittore sannita 1994
Director, Writer
- Luciano Amelio/Terrae motus
Luciano Amelio/Terrae motus 1993
Director, Writer
- Veglia
Veglia 1993
Director, Writer

Razor 1993
Director, Screenplay, Production Design

Death of a Neapolitan Mathematician 1992
Screenplay, Story, Director
- I Persiani
I Persiani 1990
Director

Prologo a Ritorno ad Alphaville 1986
Director
- Il desiderio preso per la coda
Il desiderio preso per la coda 1986
Director
- Nella città barocca
Nella città barocca 1985
Director, Writer
- Carlo Zago
Carlo Zago 1985
Stage Director

Nessun dove - Studi su immagini di Napoli 1985
Director
- Perfidi incanti
Perfidi incanti 1984
Director, Writer
- Glacial Tango
Glacial Tango 1983
Stage Director
- Foresta nera
Foresta nera 1982
Director
Credits from TMDB.