(ANSA) - ROME, JUN 06 - "When no one talked about the mafia, a newspaper hit the front page. It is a series that I am proud of not only as an actor but as a citizen, I believe that parents should watch it with their children, boys are sometimes fascinated by evil, here we talk about positive heroes, their weapons are intelligence, thirst for justice and typewriter ".
Word of Claudio Santamaria: in the series "L'Ora, ink against lead", broadcast on Canale 5 from Wednesday 8 June for five first evenings, he plays Antonio Nicastro, a journalist inspired by the figure of Vittorio Nisticò, historic director of the newspaper "L'Ora" of Palermo.
A co-production RTI - Indiana Production, directed by Piero Messina, CiroD'Emilio and Stefano Lorenzi.
The story opens with a detective story: a trade unionist disappears in Corleone and a young reporter brings him the news.
Nicastro senses that there is something big underneath.
Having come from Rome with his wife Anna (the actress Silvia D'Amico) to cut the costs of the newspaper, he will end up with a front-page investigation against lamafia.
The series traces, in the Palermo of the 1950s, the epic of the newspaper "L'Ora", the daily newspaper founded in 1900 by the Florio family who in that period began to publish burning investigations against the mafia.
To become Antonio Nicastro, Santamaria also worked "on the character of man, reluctant to any kind of compromise. At the center of everything he puts the news, the search for truth and justice. He ignored friends of friends".
The story is freely taken from the novel "Nostra Signoradella Necessità" (Einaudi) by Giuseppe Sottile.
The series floods 30 years after the Capaci and via D'Amelio massacres: "I was 18, I remember that moment, the feeling of pain and helplessness".
The Ora "was also a cultural hub that attracted artists of the caliber of Louis Armstrong and Maria Callas".
Nicastro, Santamaria continues, "believed that freedom begins where ignorance ends".
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