“I was lucky enough to never suffer from being a child of art. On the contrary. But my son Brando, poor fellow, not only has a father. He also has a grandfather, a grandmother and even his uncle Carlo Verdone with whom accounts. He is very well trained, he studied a lot in the United States, but, as they say, he is really put under “. Christian De Sica smiles with those smiles full of pride, while on the phone with ANSA he retraces an ideal game of passing the torch. Just as his son is in Naples on a new director’s set, it is the anniversary of the death of his father Vittorio (7 July 1901 – 13 November 1974), father of the great Italian cinema, of Neorealism and of the comedies of the increased who invented Sophia Loren and illuminated the first varieties of black and white TV. For the anniversary, Christian De Sica dedicated the schedule of his Sunday to him with, the space curated by Enrico Salvatori and Giovanni Paolo Fontana, broadcast tomorrow from 14 to 24 on Rai Storia. In all, ten hours of programming, which – starting from the memory of Vittorio’s death in Paris, while Christian was recording “At seven in the evening”, his debut in the management – to retrace some moments of his career as an actor, director, man of show.
“I’m always happy when I can talk about his work – Christian tells ANSA – Unfortunately this is a country that easily forgets. Not only him, see also Anna Magnani”. On this occasion he chose to review some lesser-known pieces of his long career, from “Vittorio De Sica: self-portrait”, signed in 1964 by Giulio Macchi, to the homage made by Christian himself in 1977 in “Dolls there isn’t a lira “. And then the Musichiere with Mario Riva, in 1960, the performances at “Studio Uno” with Mina, “Stasera Gina Lollobrigida”, “Canzonissima” (the last in 1972 together). The director De Sica, on the other hand, is in his first and only work for TV, a documentary dedicated to the 25th anniversary of the Italian Republic, while in prime time there is the drama “Il Viaggio” from 1974, based on Pirandello and starring by Sophia Loren and Richard Burton (but there is also a tribute to a great family friend, Cesare Zavattini with the special “Cesare Zavattini: this is how Za spoke”).
“What is left with me most of my father? The awareness that this profession cannot be improvised. You need to study and a lot, especially for popular and comic works – continues De Sica – He always said: Bicycle thieves can be done with the hand left, comedy instead is a serious thing. And then, he taught me never to raise my head: that’s why every day I look out the window and say ‘thank you’ because I managed to do this job. Indeed, now that I’m 70 years, one occasion comes after another “: In writing he has four screenplays. Then there is the theatrical tour of “An evening with friends” and two upcoming films: “Who framed Santa Claus” with Alessandro Siani (in cinemas on December 16) and “Altrimenti we angry”, remake of the film with Bud Spencer and Terence Hill now directed by You Nuts, in which he will play the villain for the first time (in January). “Cathartic to be bad? Not at all. Actors who say it make me laugh,” he says. For Siani, on the other hand, he plays the role of a “Santa Claus who comes into contact with a swindler, a Neapolitan ‘king of packs’, who transforms him into a cazzimma Santa, complete with long hair and a jacket. In those clothes? Well – he remembers – in that case I remember how many we did with my wife at Christmas for our children. We didn’t dress up as Santa Claus but we secretly left the reindeer footprints and biscuit crumbs around the house as if they had eaten them ” .
There is much talk of a return to the set alongside the companion of the legendary cinepanettoni, Massimo Boldi. “Everyone asks me. And in the end the newspapers make the headlines. I would like to but there is nothing concrete yet. It would be nice to be directed by Brando – he lights up – The beauty of young people today is that they have no superstructures. We were more compressed and full of complexes.
On the one hand, we were better prepared for life. They are less so, but they have that candor… “(ANSA).
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