Death of a Neapolitan Mathematician

Drama, History

🎬 Critics Choice Nominee

Director Mario Martone

Status Released

Release Date 1992-09-08

Storyline

Naples, 1959. Pure Mathematics professor Renato Caccioppoli, Bakunin's grandson, is a tortured soul. Recently discharged from the psychiatric hospital, left by his wife, and increasingly disillusioned with academia and the Communist Party, he lives his last days with painful detachment.