Steppes Travel Sponsors the First UK Viewing of Naples '44 in Aid of The Hands Up Foundation

The Royal Geographical Society, 1 Kensington Gore, London
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£20 Tickets via steppestravel.co.uk/about/event/first-uk-viewing-naples-44-documentary-film/
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Royal Geographical Society
1 Kensington Gore , SW7 2AR
Nearest Tube/Rail Stations
South Kensington 0.51 miles

Steppes Travel is delighted to be raising money for The Hands Up Foundation by sponsoring the first UK screening of Norman Lewis’ ‘Naples ’44’ narrated by Benedict Cumberbatch and directed by Francesco Patierno. Considered to be one of the greatest military memoirs of World War II, his diaries vividly describe a war-torn city; desolate, broken and on the brink of famine.

Introduced by Michael Palin, Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, with a panel of hosts including Photographer, Don McCullin; Director of BBC Content, Charlotte Moore; and Norman Lewis’ Biographer, Julian Evans, the first UK screening of ‘Naples ‘44’ will take place at The Royal Geographical Society on Tuesday 2nd May 2017.

The film is a powerful condemnation of the horrors of war and speaks not only for Southern Italy, but for all war-torn countries today, including the devastation in Syria, a subject and region close to Steppes Travel’s heart.

Naples ’44 is a first-hand account by a young British Intelligence Officer, Norman Lewis, who arrives in Naples just hours after its liberation from Nazi forces and witnesses the agonsing consequences of wartime occupation with all its cruelty and suffering laid bare. Indeed by 1944, a once proud and vibrant people was so destitute that all the tropical fish had been devoured in the local aquarium, prostitution and thievery were commonplace and, in partnership with the allied forces the mafia supported in bringing the city under control.

After many years of working to bring the book to the screen, ‘Naples '44’ has been released as a film, recently winning 'Italian Film Critics Award for Best Documentary 2017’. The film adaptation imagines Lewis returning to the city that charmed and seduced him and is made up of flashbacks between the places of present that Lewis revisits many years later and the stories of the past. It combines archive footage from the Second World War - some of which have never seen before - films on liberated Naples and footage of Naples today, with the voice of Norman Lewis superbly portrayed by the award winning actor, Benedict Cumberbatch

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