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Death of a Neapolitan Mathematician (1992)
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Death of a Neapolitan Mathematician (1992)
Original name: Morte di un matematico napoletano
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Naples. Professor Renato Caccioppoli, professor of pure mathematics, is a tormented and disillusioned man living a difficult life. Back from the psychiatric hospital, abandoned by his wife, and having become a stranger to his own party colleagues of the PCI and its employees to the University, he lives his life with disenchanted posting.
Style: intellectual
Plot: scientist, mathematician, communism, alcoholism, suicidal thoughts, college professor, math teacher, biopic, suicide by gun, teacher, student, alcoholic, mathematics, university, suicide, pianist, professor, piano, classical music, opera, teacher student relationship, existentialism, torment, husband wife relationship, weirdo ...
Time: 1950s, 50s
Place: naples italy, italy
Keyword: russian

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