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Edda Ciano and the Communist
Edda Ciano and the Communist
Un'inconfessabile passion between the Duce's daughter-in-exile on Lipari and a partisan
Paola Scaramozzino
Paola Scaramozzino
"It 's party was a stroke of lightning even from a review read in the press even before the book came out," says Graziano Diana, director and writer along with Domenico and Stefano Marcocci Tomassetti of "Edda Ciano Communist and "based on the book by Marcello Sorgi (Rizzoli publisher). The TV-movie, produced by Multimedia Casanova Luca Barbareschi for Rai Fiction, will air one episode on March 13 Raiuno.
"This beautiful story of love discovered accidentally by Sorgi, I immediately felt my own and I was not alone. Even Stefania Rocca plays Edda (Greece), the protagonist, Alessandro Preziosi (Bongiorno Leonidas), wanted to buy the copyrights after reading it. The character belongs to it and it feels seeing her play. "
We are in September 1945 and Edda Ciano, Mussolini's daughter killed just five months before and wife of Galeazzo, who was shot more than a year, is brought to the border to Lipari. Edda is a woman still young but destroyed, depressed, alone and separated his children. On the island before she came back, Leonidas, leader of the Communist Liparoti that was partisan in France. Greeted with a big party by the islanders now exhausted by war, pouring on him the hopes of a revival. And Leonidas is being done. A fight broke out during a demonstration and Edda is saved by this man. The encounter was fatal for both.
Graziano Diana, she was born as a writer of many films for the cinema (it's in theaters these days: "The father and stranger "by Ricky Tognazzi, but remember, among the many" Canone inverso, "" The Commons "," Ultra ") and many dramas for television. Here also worked as a director for the second time, after the "Stolen Life" in 2008. It 's different to write for TV and why the transition from writing to camera?
"As for the script, no, I do not see much difference. I've written as a film that could run in cinemas. The only thing I insisted, going on TV, is that the film was broadcast in a single episode, because it is to see everything in one evening. The director? "The direction is proseguimento della scrittura” diceva Kubrick e io la penso davvero così. In fondo, quando si scrive, si hanno già in mente i personaggi, il loro modo di muoversi, gli atteggiamenti, gli sguardi, le atmosfere, i luoghi e i colori. Certo il regista si espone in prima persona, non ha scusanti e si deve prendere fino in fondo le proprie responsabilità. E poi è faticoso. Abbiamo girato in 4 settimane e senza sosta un po’ a Lipari, a Salina e in altri punti bellissimi delle Eolie. Oltre 200 sono state le comparse del posto. Abbiamo ricostruito i luoghi come dovevano essere nel 1945. L’isola ha avuto una grande importanza nella storia e lo ha anche nel film”.
E mi mostra un bellissimo libro di foto sul September Bepi made by Caroli when you seem to feel first hand the atmosphere of the times: the return of King Leonidas from the war with proven face Alessandro Preziosi, the arrival of Edda, Stefania Rocca, gaunt in a dark gray coat is essential. And then the people: the faces marked with the fishermen of Lipari, the faces of women and children that reflect the clear light of the place. And the places, angles of a sea of \u200b\u200bemotional beauty. The film is faithful to the story of Arise?
"Yes, quite. I wanted to present the story from the Leonidas, strong man who has studied and has a father, Don Eduardo, also a Fascist and a very thick Chiaramida played by Adrian, with whom clashes because of its passion for Edda.
"How can a communist loving daughter of the Duce? "Asks the son.
seem different but in truth the two are similar and we'll see. Leonidas can love Edda because his thought and ideology over the injury and she considers above all as a person. "
Edda in his fragile condition of "supervised special number 1" as she defines it, but really well for those times .... ".
"Yes, Edda drinks, smokes, wears the pants and be the first to" show your belly " wearing the two pieces to Lipari. A woman truly in love with Bayard, as he calls it, referring to the bay horse Orlando Furioso. "
. Why the love story told through letters to his beloved Edda, will not continue? For a fact or ideological ends because the passion?
"None of those reasons. In fact, the love between the two will never end but the events will be the end of exile and departure from Lipari in 1946 of her, out in the end. Edda's place is next to his children and that of Leonidas is on his island and not in high society. Having accompanied her on a journey to the North in order to put in the safe hands of her husband Ciano's diaries, you will leave. "
Awaiting the return of Leonidas on the island, there will be his future wife, the young Angelina, played by Dajana Roncione. Diana tells us that he learned from an heir of the family Cyan, nobody was aware of the love story between Leonidas and Edda. Only now, however, it became clear to whom it belonged to that drawing naked woman held for years in the cellar. E 'sketch made in pencil from Communist to his beloved. And it is the only memory Edda will bring with him leaving the island.
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