Christian, the supernatural series with Pesce su Sky

(ANSA) - ROME, JANUARY 25 - "A criminal with stigmata, a suburban stalker, who in truth is almost always inflated: a character with Pasolini's veins. I am very fond of this character is a big boy who considers the maximum of happiness that his mother he is well, he is not greedy, he has a positive simplicity ". This is Christian, to whom Edoardo Pesce (David di Donatello for Dogman) lends his face, protagonist of the homonymous series Sky Original in six episodes that will debut on Sky Atlantic, produced by Sky and Lucky Red in participation with Newen Connect, and streaming on Now on January 28th. Presented to the press in the presence of the whole cast. Present SoniaRovai (Director Scripted Production Sky Italia) Andrea Occhipinti (Founder and president of Lucky Red). EdoardoPesce: "I loved this character very much,he is not a villain, he does not immediately understand what is happening to him, he does not have the tools, he lives with his adoptive mother, ill with Alzheimer's (Lina Sastri) and he does not even notice when he performs the first miracle, resurrecting her from an overdose her friend Rachele (Silvia D'amico) ".

   Christian earns his living doing the only thing he can do: beating. He does it for the local boss, Lino (Giordano DePlano), a sort of older adoptive brother because he grew up with the same woman, Italy (Sastri). One day, Christian begins to hurt his hands and bleed: they are stigmata, even if he, forced from the suburbs, does not realize it. Christian's powers attract the attention of Matteo (Claudio Santamaria), "a Vatican postulator who is obsessed with finding someone whose thaumaturgical powers are true."

   An idea that, says director Stefano Lodovichi, was born "years ago from the head of Roberto Saku Cinardi and Valerio Cilio".

"I wanted to tell a supernatural story in Italy. In the background to the events narrated, to the epic of the criminal with these powers, an imaginary place with symbolic implications, the City-Palace not a place: a bet of the series - explains Cinardi -.

   It had to be the City -Palazzo di Christian, just as the veils became the image of Gomorrah, this was to be our attempt to create a precise iconography ".

(HANDLE).