(by Giorgio Gosetti) (ANSA) - ROME, JANUARY 03 - 70 candles to be blown out on January 5 in a single time are an important burden for the eternal boy of the Italian show: Christian De Sica who plays scenes for almost 50 years. Born in Rome in 1951 is the second child of the great De Sica and Maria Mercader.
Very close to his older brother, the musician Manuel, has everything from his father: physical presence, beautiful tenor voice, contagious sympathy, talent as an actor, and it is his father who opens the doors of cinema to him.
Then the family friend Roberto Rossellini offers him a small article in his "Blaise Pascal" for TV.
Meanwhile, other directors like Pasquale-Festa Campanile, Duccio Tessarima will play the role of Giovannino, in the film by Paolo Nuzzi, to give him a Special David Award in 1976.
Two years earlier his father Vittorio passed away, leaving him a legacy of many gambling clothes, a complex family ménage, a bulky and artistic model.
Stubborn, the young De Sica continues his career between cinema ("Bordella" by Pupi Avati is his best performance) and variety (his teacher Antonello Falqui).
In 1980 he married Silvia Verdone, sister of his fellow student Carlo, and the following year took part in the third success of the dream with "Borotalco".
In 1983 Carlo Vanzina becomes king of the box office with "Sapore di mare" and "Vacanze di Natale": both Christian emerge in a chorus of future favorites of the public from Jerry Calà to Claudio Amendola.
With that disguised remaket of "Winter Holidays" (1959, Camillo Mastrocinque), De Sica inaugurates the season of "cinepanettoni": often in pairs with Massimo Boldi, the trend has lasted for almost 40 years and up to 2010 with the series "Natale a ... . "
firmly holds the head of the national holiday box office.
But Christian De Sica has patiently built an artistic personality that is even more multifaceted: as a director, a consummate actor, a confidential singer, a performer in the theater, a television showman.
Today he is a popular icon and also for this reason his birthday is special in 2021: after all it is the party of an artist who made himself, but also that of a generation of Italians.
(HANDLE).