Provisory Title: A man called Serpico

Length: 52 minutes / 26 minutes

Format: DVCAM

Author: Menotti Bucco

Director: Menotti Bucco

Executive Producer: Marco Ruocco

Production: Menotti Bucco Films © 2002/2003

SYNOPSIS

A man called Serpico is a 52 minutes documentary about a very unique cop fighting con artists and scams in Napoli.

Inspector Antonio De Felice joined the Napoli City Police Corp in 1985 and since then he has been one of the few incorruptible and active cops in the city known worldwide for its criminal activity and imaginative scams.

A man of action, De Felice has always served on street duty and been insensitive to requests of blinding his eyes to help out “friends of friends”. His behaviour led him to a state of isolation that reached the peak last year with his transfer to a remote service in a back office. He then went to the press that through a number of articles made public his case and the brilliant results of his past work.

As a result of this press campaign his superiors created a special task force to fight scams and frauds and asked him to lead it.

The special squad has been operative for 6 months now and already has carried out a large number of successful operations.

Totally devoted to his job, De Felice sacrifices the time for his wife and 5 daughters. He begins to be known to Neapolitan fraud perpetrators that fear him to the point of sending him a clear message last month: 3 bullets in an envelope that in mafia language is a clear warning. Since then he is obliged to wear a bullet-proof vest  and has to always be escorted by one of his trusted man. This is not common for a man of the City Police that opposed to State Police usually take care of traffic problems or minor criminal activity.

De Felice is a very unique character: he never wears formal clothes but foreign military shirts; his investigation techniques are very informal but extremely effective; in his office the usual picture of the President has been changed with a picture of Rambo.  His men call him Serpico.

Following De Felice and his squad along their daily job we will plunge in a colourful world of unique scams and show aspects of Napoli that are worldwide known but rarely seen.