âIâve always believed that De Giovanniâs theatre work could be firmly anchored in a film context and that it offers great cinematic potentialâ, Gassmann insists. âIn this film, we talk about family, inescapable change, and the passing of time, and we do so in the middle of the 1960s in Posillipo, Naples, through a family which must come to terms with living a life different to the comfortable one theyâd thus far enjoyed.Â
Il silenzio grande is a film full of light and dark, silences and explosive words, laughter, differing outlooks, anxieties; where everyone speaks but no-one really listensâ.