Frankie’s Way - When Baking Pizza Becomes a Crime
Frankie’s Way - Quando la pizza è un crimine
2026 · 65 min · Italy · Italian
Directed by Stefano Raspa
An atypical pizza-at-home experience.
Frankie lives in Prague and starts making Neapolitan pizza at home, out of a tiny electric oven, for the delight of his friends. After some months, what was a passion-fueled pastime ends up turning into an actual business. Thanks to word of mouth and social networks, tens of clients buy his pizza every week and his apartment turns into a social hub for pizza lovers. Is this the first step to a collective addiction? Success never comes easy, they say... and in fact, as soon as the word is out about these delicious pizzas, Pulcinella, guardian mask of Neapolitan traditions, senses the mockery and drags Frankie in front of the Supreme Court of the Commedia dell’Arte masks. Pulcinella believes Frankie has no right to customize such an ancient tradition to his liking.
“Neapolitan pizza can only be cooked in the wood oven”
(art. 2 of the Pizza Bible).