Unofficial king of the nativities sea makers fans of his work come from all over italy to get a photo with him. His mama also known as propecia or little doll can hardly believe she spent fifty years packing up the Three Wise Men and other figurines. Meanwhile marcos nephew daveed wonders how hes going to paint two dozen masks for the pooch and the figurine by the seeming but his other uncle says you have to pull out all the stops for the customers to know this is the symbol of naples. Marco even has the edge on publicize the stunts were going to spend a few days or him and his family holiday galvanising all that would have more joy than oil. And to see how they cope with the prechristian a stress on v. A son gregorio autumn a no. I. Was i the orders are coming thick and fast the christmas rush is intense but marco is the epitome of calm during the. Day. That. Marco is working on an order fifteen lots of jesus mary and joseph they are all supposed to be identical. Cousin luca is giving the cribs a quick trim its not exactly a fine art. That. Scene of each all the same or shun them one review. But just when things threaten to get boring join and rico are there to boost flagging spirits in the last eighteen days before christmas they work their way through some kind of gory a lot of men know giving a blessing to the artist since. Were not out of im one of alla shooting mother she trotted out our. Little Christmas Carols and Conveyor Belt cribs are yesterdays news for many of us. Theyre more interested in star power going to the rose it seems this is the little royals Fairless Coney and sophia loren she wants visited marco in person so did poverty Opera Singers t. V. And football stars are a booming business if only his family could keep up. But have a president out i. Love my work around the clock i cook im the mama i was a wife i do it all anything else but you. Full steam ahead and the moneys pouring in three days before christmas the number of last minute orders are mounting including ones from customers who want to have themselves modeled in terra cotta. The latest project a tie in celebrity chef rubio was brought to bear on her mother to her the proud of her. Marcos cousin also needs to pull out all the stops all over. Her. Whole. World the man with tattoos has his own remedy for coping with the christmas stress. Hormones that only must show now. Mission to save. His job is to make all the tiny glass eyes in marcos figurines. Even if youve. Forgotten nothing but class size for fourteen years. And they think the kids do but i dont really. Single. Thing and i like it i have eyes everywhere eyes are symbolic of everything i do ive got loads eyes here eyes their eyes everywhere i feel that loss and. Know that. The figurines used in the name of politan nativities scenes are called puss story the word actually means shepherd but in naples it refers to any figurine. Its a centuries old craft that also provides a good story for photojournalists in the run up to Christmas Young artists like look good in the papers shes learning the traditional handcraft from marco. A lot thats the i mean if i think that about the head is made of terra cotta out with glass eyes which look a mix thing in the hands and feet or wouldnt the body has a flexible iron skeleton covered with hemp is that for most or more they dont have the proportions are based on leonardo da vincis famous drawing you know she was so you have exactly the same distance between the outstretched arms and between the head and feet its forty centimeters each way. For to and for. Very good so marco is the great pass story artist the theater director if you like but where is his stage. Coachella says we can find a stage builder just around the corner the first alley on the left by the oriental negativity sea with its onion domes and camels and. Then right back to the loneliest corner of the old convent. Santa magellan a sunday jewel daily but i. Rap artists and mario says the nuns gave him this little cage as a workshop no one really knows whether thats actually true. With just three days to go until christmas hes not having a good time the main fuse keeps popping out with the patience of a saint he goes over and pushes it back in umpteen times a day. His Guardian Angels have never let him down yet his business still stands mario says making nativities scenes is a service to god much in the with the three levels hallelujah. At primary things ok i get. All of. The backdrops that he creates for nativities scenes look pretty wild mario says thats because before christ came the whole world was in spiritual ruins it seems a little over the top but without the press epic as locals call their nativities scenes naples wouldnt be naples and mario wouldnt be mario in a unit of thats very difficult its as if i were communicating directly with a nativity scene its a real journey of the imagination of jean it often does here. Yet. Marco has no time for imaginary jerk. Nice or communicating with his figurines his nephew debbie did needs to make a delivery oh. So you collect two hundred euros off you go. To the dogs how. Is. That hamas. Dot. Com. Her mother. I sent her a feeding. Station the right fresh ok. Ok so. Thats it. For the moment no thats not and you the one i wanted had different wings and no thats the right one. The baby daughter does look quite beautiful does not know what theyre going to have a bit more color. That wasnt my job signora i didnt even know it was an angel food for. The. Good paying customers in pussy to pull the wealthy district of naples can sometimes be difficult. Mario our other nativities he maker is also earning a few extra euros here before christmas now. The top and still. Hes come to teach the children how to build a meet to v. C. Michael so they think of this one. Yeah move in. With the little man but tell me do you like building a pivot he seems. You know one well that was clear enough but while the plastic container is ok for the children it all seems a little antiquated. To one of them what do you think will it be a virtual price if you want a electronic nativity what house is that men with escalators and all kinds of electronic things only get off with no no no no no press says he will always be the same. Throwing him out of cork and wood for all eternity as tradition dictates we wouldnt want to see the Three Wise Men with cell phones now would wake of course we were there they followed the star of bethlehem thats what led them to christs birth place. I doubt theyd have navvies then but all of this here are what occurs here in the marios one concession to the twenty First Century a small motorized pump for the function. On. The back of the vs and gregorio out of me no its been a long hard day in the workshops. But naples is far from settling down for the night. It. Was five. Zero zero. Zero. Zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero marcos nephew whos a fan of you ventus tour and a cardinal sin in naples is going out. And just going out with a couple of friends ok he has been a t. Shirt too thin for winter want to tell it was some idea to try and spawn mom as she took in the car only a moped he had just one thing the quad momento drive too fast that. Is just too cool young hip hoppers meet in front of the nativities slowly it could only happen in naples i. At the other end of the city some other hip hop fans are dancing at home. Luka the glass eye specialist isnt just a fan of the music he also wraps himself. In the. Story. Was once a rebel teenager on the wild streets of naples now he has a job wife and family but hes still married to his music. And if a child i only make protest music im not interested in making money or a profit for the. White house and. Lucas longstanding friend ana is his rap partner welcome even though hes really a nice place that needs to be more from a hot start again. And that he. Both of them have one great hero a hip hop legend from new york. Like many young people in naples. And early death. He was a man of the streets none of us are saints and yes evil socalled is somehow appealing to me but i try to do good things even if i look mean and ugly im actually a nice guy at home with my family im passing on the values of christmas and good neapolitan tradition. Looka is clearly a rapper with a big heart. And even divvied up surrounded by women and revelling in the naples nightlife insists that the native and figurines in the Family Business is more important to him than the bars even if his friends think hes crazy. Thats so one of his cousins who is out with him asks him why hes doing a job like that at his age whats the point he asks with your move to say you want to break the law youre well tell you whats important to me is carrying on my family name i really mean it even though im young and happy to hang out with you and the others im willing to make sacrifices even if its hard to get up in the morning ill still go to the workshop you go. To. Group. A new day dawns in naples. Around june the most. Youll be she moved this. Piece through. The. Roof. The room it seems some streets even have their own nativities seen the madonna on this one was found in the garbage with bullet holes through her body no one knows why but she was lovingly restored to her proper place. That i shamed him but the. Boss marco is still in bed but he cant stay there much longer he has to open the shop. With only two days to go until christmas. Theres just enough time to replace his bed cap with a woolly one. For. His mother and a picked up by. Marc own lives in the same building and. I. Will also need to leave soon the glasseye expert hip hopper and devoted daddy says in the end it all comes down to one thing the worst of it imo its all for love i love allow you love for a woman for yourself. Here sweetheart take this. I want to love us have a love is the most important thing in life without love you have no life and if you have no life you cant move forward but thats just how it is. So its. Going to the wars are keen to shift our. Its not the money and its not even the precept be or the past or in the need to be scenes and the figurines that draw on marco and all the others to some gregorio art may know each morning. Its not the fame or all the popes that marco has met. Down in the pantheon he sure you dont theres not enough protein or sophia loren its for the family and more than anyone else for marcos father. Was so this is me at the age of six. Storm catching my dad he was such an important person everyones dad means a lot to them but i think my dad was just that little bit more important to me before the. Marcos father died a few years ago his widow ana still misses him every day he built an altar to st antonino above the shop door. Is cleared to see julie every year on june the thirteenth anniversary of suntan tony is definitely a big red for the poor people of the city these days theres hardly anyone who goes hungry but we still do it just in memory of my husband who said before he knew that we have to make a nice statue of her yeah its so beautiful it keeps getting stolen. Marcos father giuseppi inherited the shop from his own father now marco is the one in charge. For the most. Marco is Something Like a father to luka even if they both make jokes about their relationship so were not just cousins we have the same haircut. The same haircut maybe but not the same head because what is your head is something i think. Lets just say there was a time when i had to bring this boy back on to the straight and narrow. But i had a few problems that i passed. Though the bodybuilding. Nobody saw injured a guy one time but actually he was the one who was trying to attack me twenty years ago i was only a little gun. Actually it was two thousand and one that was huge a mammoth of a guy and a rugby player and i got next show and there was this girl that i lied but he wasnt happy about it. He told me not to turn up at our school but i went anyway so we had this fight and i really gave it to him it was so bad that i was arrested and locked up when i came out. Marco gave me this job and here we are we take if we say if there follows here in my famous rehab center. By nine am everyones out and about except for one. Little girl. That im going to. The man who said to take over marcos rehab Center One Day has overslept orange juice is not enough of a day well need some stronger drugs for. Sure. It. Will go through into what time do you call this the both rather oh yes is it my if it was late there are seven base the very latest already i know that youre always late its not on going. Ill rajin both from now on for every minute that you arrive too late you stay for three minutes longer in the evening we received people. Its now the morning of Christmas Eve his mother another annamaria is doing some last minute shopping she knows everyone around here and they own love her. Rock god you. Are all the jewelry jew i can get. On that bus quality you say that officials a good communicator got in with. Bananas seafood walnuts just time for a chat with green grocer from call animal ria is a proud moment for. Obama said the other day works for me so he always does on a tip if he see that little fallujah is on the juice mommy always says mama thats my job i said brother my son carry on. But today davida isnt working on any nativities scenes marco has sent him out on deliveries again. Two hours before the shops close sun category you are may know is in party mood. All right. But that is ok. For. You but. Let me know what you marco can hardly move for the customers. In the. Sceptical neapolitan is the customer who turns up on the last day when does he notice it needs one when hes laying the table its the same with presents at six pm you find people here looking for last minute gifts on Christmas Eve diverge on a boat bus ticket just as you could. But mario shop is not running so well. On Christmas Eve normally one of the busiest days of the year hes hardly sold anything mario goes home. Even pulled janetta has earned more than him today. And just as davida has finally got round to painting his put yellows another traditional neapolitan character comes breezing in the show show the man who said to drive out evil spirits. Over what weve incense and incantations follow the saying goes that in naples everyones born an actor and those who dont make it into the theater find their own stage show rs. If youre sure. Its nearly closing time while marco tries to help his last customer find the right gift juji his puppet maker is busy practicing her speech for tonights Christmas Party shes got quite an audience. She said he said to all right. Judy is nervous and marcos team arent helping so. Maybe stuck. So maybe she got off here i am again just like last year our job is to make a story and nothing is by chunks we dont just work to get it for me this is one big family and maka the comedian is staring out ship my kisses from a judge he should be allowed so by she. Already knows i dont know how i am. June. With the busiest three days before christmas now finally over marco shuts up the shop its time to celebrate. Its. Would like to have worn the dicky bow for the christmas dinner with his parents but he only has one shirt with a collar and he couldnt find it anywhere. On the strike of midnight lays baby jesus in the manger hailing the official start to christmas according to neapolitan tradition. 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