Edoardo Pesce, my Deaf of heart and belly

(by Nicoletta Tamberlich) (ANSA) - ROME, MARCH 22 - "Alberto Sordi as a mask of our culture, of the commedia dell'arte, if it can still be said ... It is as if I had worn it, entrusting myself to the heart and to the belly". On the centenary of his birth, Rai1 celebrates the '' National Albertone 'with a TV movie, broadcast on Tuesday 24 March in the early evening, in which the role of the popular Roman actor is played by Edoardo Pesce (David di Donatello for Dogman): Allows? Alberto Sordi, directed by Luca Manfredi (in ArteNino), who signed the screenplay with Dido Castelli. Unacoproduction Ocean Productions with Rai Fiction.
The great actor was born on June 15, 1920 and died on February 24, 2003. The film tells the twenty years in which the young Alberto Sordi became the man who - as EttoreScola said - "never allowed us to be sad ". "Over two hundred films and a gallery of unforgettable characters, a game of inventions and tics on their ways of speaking and demonstrating themselves, like his famous leap, and yet - points out Manfredi - Alberto had to work hard to see his talent known".
"It was nice - Fish emphasizes - to imagine this Deaf private, I worked with imagination, I had an almost abstract idea of ​​Alberto Sordi man. I felt a closeness. It was a sentimental and instinctive thing, very mine. At the beginning, I having had many insecurities, many hesitations, both on age and physique. I am very tall ... ".
"When I chose to make this film - says the director - this was the goal: not to forget. A recent survey asked the young people who the 'famous Albertone' was and many of them replied 'a skier', probably thinking of Tomba Here, I think it is the public service 's task to preserve the memory of characters of this caliber. " (HANDLE).