Ligabue's madness has Germano's face

(by Francesco Gallo) (ANSA) - ROME, JAN 25 - After the superb performance of Favino in Bettino Craxi's 'Hammamet', there are those who await that of Elio Germano in 'I wanted to hide' by Giorgio Rights.
The Roman actor will in fact take on the role of Antonio Costa, known as Ligabue, an imaginative painter with the tragic vitanity in Switzerland and then raised in Gualtieri, in the province of Reggio Emilia, where he died in 1965.
An artist so insane as to be able to paint and therefore imagine, lions and jaguars, gorillas and tigers among the poplar woods and on the banks of the river Po. "He could be born with an ungracious physicality, a mind veiled by a moderate madness, you can feeling wrong, alone, or wanting to hide for the 'shame of existing ...' but you can believe in your talent and turn it into an opportunity for redemption - says the director -. There is always a way to be sixth and be loved and Toni Ligabue wanted it without ever giving up. " 'I wanted to hide', produced by Rai Cinema and Palomar with the support of the Emilia-Romagna Region, will be in theaters from February 27th distributed by 01 Distribution. In the cast of the film, besides Elio Germano, we also find OliverEwy (Ligabue as a teenager), Leonardo Carrozzo (Ligabue dabambino), Pietro Traldi (Renato Marino Mazzacurati), OriettaNotari (the mother of Mazzacurati), Andrea Gherpelli (the painter Andrea Mozzali), Denis Campitelli, Filippo Marchi, MaurizioPagliari, Francesca Manfredini, Paola Lavini and Gianni Fantoni.
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