Almost a year ago, on November 2,
Gigi Proietti was able to die the last mandrakata, the same day of his birthday, 80 years old
.
Today a foundation bears his name and tonight at the Auditorium there is great emotion for the documentary on the great artist, Luigi Proietti known as Gigi, made by
Edoardo Leo
.
There is his family, widow Sagitta Alter, daughters Susanna and Carlotta.
"It's a beautiful film, which fully reflects dad, he tells it completely, we are all really very happy about it", says Carlotta.
The project was born by the will of Leo, "in 2018 I had it in my head to make a documentary on
A me gli occhi please
, the one-man-show of '76 written by Roberto Lerici, which in a certain sense changed the theater Italian, an incredible case, with the queue outside, full every night, sold out from the first performance at the Teatro Tenda. I proposed it to Gigi who replied incredulously: "a documentary about me? And why?". him,
to my ever superhero,
not a friend of his, nor one of his actors who grew up in the Project Workshop, but I felt I wanted to make this tribute and instead I found myself in front of a humble person, almost as if he didn't know he was so great. After some hesitation - says Edoardo Leo - he said yes and I began to do interviews (in the film there is Alessandro Gassmann who tells how he went with his father, a friend of Proietti, to see him, and they laughed out loud ed), to collect materials, to follow him for months every performance of his show wherever he was always documenting the energy, the great passion, the charisma, interviewing him in his
Globe Theater
. Then his death. I stopped - the director explains - and I asked the family what to do. When they gave their consent, I started working on it again but at that point from the story of A me gli occhi became something else: the attempt to discover the mystery of an artist capable of combining high and low, of upsetting, seducing the classics by knowing them deeply. , unite the generations. It was a feat because Proietti did a lot and in the end it was an act of love due ".
At the Auditorium" an empty chair, yours, because my regret is not being able to show it to him. "
Luigi Proietti in art Gigi
sifts through a very long career, his musical debut before being theatrical, his training in experimental theater, his meeting with Carmelo Bene, his experiences at the Comunale dell'Aquila with the 101 group, masters such as Giancarlo Cobelli, Giancarlo Calenda, in short the Proietti d vanguard. And then all the rest the Tenda, the Brancaccio, the cinema with Gassman directed by Altman, the cult Fever from horse, Shakespeare, the TV a complete portrait of period clips, fragments found and many artists to remember him from Fiorello to Cortellesi.
Produced by Fulvio and Paola Lucisano with Paola Ferrari and Edoardo Leo, the documentary is an Italian International Film and Alea Film production with Rai Cinema in association with Politeama and in collaboration with Lexus, which with this film enters the world of film production.
"We will find a suitable date for the theatrical release and then, in synergy with Rai, a TV program", says Paolo Del Brocco, CEO of Rai Cinema, also recalling Edoardo Falcone's Io sono Babbo Natale in which Proietti starred for the last time, in cinemas from 3 November.
