You would never guess how Frankie - an italian in Prague - makes his pizza at home, and how he turned it into a business!
And that's exactly where our creative documentary "Frankie' Way" is going to take you: on a three-dimensional journey in the depths of the world's best known culinary tradition and back to the future.
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)
Will Frankie be found innocent... or guilty?
Frankie is a young pioneer.
Despite not being an academic, he is yet another example of that italian human capital "in flight", who has found something he is cut out for ABROAD.
Pizza has never been just food to Frankie, but rather a sort of divine incarnation, worthy of being studied and appreciated as an Italian cultural product and a life experience in itself.
Thanks to Neapolitan pizza, Frankie has had thousands of chances to spend fun nights with old and new friends...well, we'd dare anyone to turn down a homemade five-star pizza!
Water, yeast, flour, tomato and mozzarella...The secret behind good pizza is in the perfect combination of the ingredients.
Frankie is a real alchemist. And one day somebody knocks at his door, demanding to taste that wonder.
The rest is history... or better, it's a movie.
Pulcinella - Prosecutor
Pulcinella believes the secret behind good pizza is a secret that’s best kept as such. How dare this young Calabrian, living in Prague, bake pizza in a mini electric oven and mischievously call it “traditional”? Pulcinella, the symbol of Naples, will do anything to stop Frankie’s threat to the name of real Neapolitan pizza.