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

• 2026Trick — Director, Screenplay
• 2025Fuori — Writer, Director
• 2025Medea — Director
• 2025Tchaikovsky: Eugene Onegin - Teatro alla Scala — Director
• 2024Per sempre al Massimo
• 2023Massimo Troisi: Somebody Down There Likes Me — Sé stesso, Screenplay, Director, Story
• 2023Scarrozzanti e Spiritelli: 50 Years of the Franco Parenti Theatre
• 2023Totò e il Principe De Curtis - L'uomo oltre la maschera
• 2023Un ritratto in movimento - Omaggio a Mimmo Jodice — Director, Writer
• 2023Viva Viviani — Sé stesso
• 2022La Bohème — Director
• 2022Nostalgia — Screenplay, Director, Story
• 2021Felicità - La stagione della rinascita — Guest
• 2021La Traviata — Production Design, Stage Director
• 2021The King of Laughter — Screenplay, Story, Director
• 2020Il barbiere di Siviglia — Director
• 2019The Mayor of Rione Sanità — Screenplay, Director
• 2018Capri-Revolution — Story, Director, Screenplay
• 2018Verdi: Falstaff — Stage Director
• 2017Ferrante Fever
• 2017Giordano: Andrea Chénier - Teatro alla Scala — Stage Director
• 2016Hindemith: Sancta Susanna — Director
• 2016Mascagni: Cavallera Rusticana — Director
• 2015Pastorale cilentana — Director
• 2015The Bassarids - Theatro dell’Opera di Roma — Director
• 2014Beethoven: Fidelio — Stage Director
• 2014Leopardi — Director, Screenplay
• 2013Rossini - Matilde di Shabran — Stage Director
• 2011Cavalleria rusticana / Pagliacci - Teatro alla Scala — Stage Director
• 2011La meditazione di Hayez — Director
• 2011Small Moral Works — Director
• 2010We Believed — Dialogue, Director, Screenplay, Co-Writer, Script Editor, Script Consultant
• 2008Verdi: Un Ballo in Maschera — Stage Director
• 2007Torvaldo e Dorliska — Stage Director
• 2005Caravaggio, the Last Act — Director, Writer
• 2005Così venne ucciso Pasolini — Director
• 2004The Scent of Blood — Director, Writer
• 2001Another World Is Possible — Assistant Director
• 2001I dieci comandamenti — Director
• 2001Lulu — Director
• 2001Nella Napoli di Luca Giordano — Director, Writer
• 2000Così Fan Tutte - Teatro Comunale di Ferrara — Director
• 2000Roman Summer — Thanks
• 2000Un posto al mondo — Writer, Director
• 1998Appunti da Santarcangelo — Director, Writer
• 1998Rehearsals for War — Screenplay, Director, Writer, Idea, Story
• 1998The Earth Quakes — Director, Writer
• 1998Una disperata vitalità — Director
• 1997La salita — Director
• 1997The Vesuvians — Director, Writer
• 1996A Sahrawi story — Director, Writer
• 1996Badolato, 10 dicembre 1995. Per Antonio Neiwiller — Director, Writer
• 1996Finale di Partita — Director
• 1996Westmoreland Naples
• 1995Troubling Love — Screenplay, Director
• 1994Antonio Mastronunzio pittore sannita — Director, Writer
• 1994Miracoli - Storie per corti — Director
• 1994The Only Country In The World — Director
• 1993Luciano Amelio/Terrae motus — Director, Writer
• 1993Razor — Director, Production Design, Screenplay
• 1993Veglia — Director, Writer
• 1992Death of a Neapolitan Mathematician — Screenplay, Story, Director
• 1990I Persiani — Director
• 1986Il desiderio preso per la coda — Director
• 1986Prologo a Ritorno ad Alphaville — Director
• 1985Carlo Zago — Stage Director
• 1985Nella città barocca — Director, Writer
• 1985Nessun dove - Studi su immagini di Napoli — Director
• 1984Perfidi incanti — Director, Writer
• 1983Glacial Tango — Stage Director
• 1982Foresta nera — Director

Appearances as themselves (11)

• 2023Un'altra Italia era possibile - Il cinema di Giuseppe De Santis — Self
• 2020Costellazione Bertolucci — Self
• 2019Searching for Valentina: The World of Guido Crepax — Himself
• 2018Buon compleanno Carlo Verdone! — Self
• Wonders - The Peninsula of Treasures — Self - Director
• 2017Pina Bausch a Roma — Self
• 2015I Don't Know the Men of this City — Self
• 2015Mario Martone: Premio alla carriera — Self
• 2009In the Eyes — Self
• 2002Pier Paolo Pasolini and the Reason of a Dream — Self
• 1996Aspettando Totò — Self