(ANSA) - ROME, 04 JAN - "Art saved me. Those were the years in which the passion for the theater was born, that was my little revolution compared to the feeling of fascination of a youth of the time. For me they were the years of Shakespeare and Chekhov training academy".
Sergio Castellitto, after having played many heroes of our time - Don Milani, Padre Pio, Rocco Chinnici - wears the uniform of General Carlo Alberto Dalla Chiesa in the series 'Our general', in 4 evenings on Rai1 from 9 January in prime time, directed by Lucio Pellegrini with Andrea Jublin.
A Rai Fiction - Stand by Me co-production, which Castellitto defines as a film: "I hate words such as fiction, series or episodes", he said in the press conference, in the presence of RaiFiction director Maria Pia Ammirati, the director, the cast and Ritadalla Chiesa, the The other son, Nando, is connected, both enthusiastic.
The story winds through an era crossed by clashes between the state and Br and focuses on the story of Dalla Chiesa at the head of the special anti-terrorism unit in Turin.
"Carlo Alberto Dalla Chiesa - says Castellitto - is not studied in books at school, perhaps it is mentioned: history, memory must be nourished. He went through the war, the resistance, the Years of Lead and the Mafia. He was always in uniform and to think that, in everything this, he was a man of peace".
man of peace,
but in a soldier's uniform that in the film he wears on every public and private occasion.
The actor underlines the great availability of the general's family, in particular of his daughter Rita, but also the role of the General Command of the Carabinieri which made it possible to shoot in real places.
"For the country it is a wound that is still open, deeply, for example in the relationship with her family, with her children".
In the cast Antonio Folletto, Flavio Furno, Andrea Di Maria, Viola Sartoretto, RomanoReggiani, Alessio Praticò, Stefano Rossi Giordani, but also Teresa Saponangelo, in the role of his wife Dora Fabbo, who died prematurely, Cecilia Bertozzi, Camilla Semino Favro and Luigi Imola in the role of their three children Simona, Rita and Nando, and ClaudiaMarchiori in those of his second wife Emanuela Setti Carraro.
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