QUeast evening Rai 1 At 9.30 pm he proposes the replica of the TV movie Califano with Leo Gassmann, In the role of the Roman singer -songwriter, who died in 2013. A challenge successfully completed by the singer and son of art, who here tries with his first actor test. The risk was falling into the speck. Instead, Leo gets away, despite some (predictable) criticism exploded on social media.
Alessandro Angelini’s film, based on the biography Without handcuffs by Califano himself and Pierluigi Diaco, tells the life of the singer -songwriter, A little poet, a little rebellious, lover of women and music. Enters his life and in the masterpieces written for Mia Martini and Ornella Vanoni, he faces the difficult period in prison, the relationship with lonelinesswith his wife Rita and friends.
Califano: The plot of the film. On Rai 1 and Raiplay
THEThe film starts since 1963. Franco Califano (Leo Gassmann) It sells door -to -door vacuum cleaner, but has the ball of music and poems. His fixed appointment is the Kit Kat, where Edoardo Vianello often performs. With his friend Antonello (Giampiero de Concilio) he founded a group, and in that place, in 1964, he was staged for the first time. Here the Califfo also knows Rita (Celeste Savino), who soon marries And from whom he has a daughter, Silvia.
To Franco, however, his father’s life is tight: leaves Rita, the daughter and moves to Milan, to the house of Vianello, where she writes songs for Bruno Martino (And they call it summer), for the same Vianello. SortCrive also The music is over with which Ornella Vanoni (Valeria Bono) participated in the Sanremo Festival in 1967. The Caliph becomes the lyricist of many Italian singers. Since 1969 he has directed a record company and launches i Rich and poor.
Leo Gassmann is Califano. (Courtesy Press Office)
In 1971 Califano met Patrizia. Their love story does not last long. Franco is involved in a clock deal, he is arrested and finally exonerated. In prison he continues to write songs and knows the criminal of the Milanese underworld Francis Tuarello who becomes his friend.
The masterpieces Minuet And Everything else is boredom. Prison
1973 is the year of the masterpiece: Minuet sung by My Martini. NEl 1977 writes Everything else is boredom: From that moment it is defined The Pasolini of the Italian song. His life is all Russian mountains: he is arrested again by collusion with the underworld. THE‘Friend Francis Tuarello He is killed by the Camorra Cutolo. The caliph will be able to save itself thanks to music, the obsession with a life, and thanks to friends. They are the ones who spur on him to record a new albumdespite being under house arrest.
Leo Gassmann. (Courtesy Press Office)
Califanothe cast with Leo Gassman
Winner in Sanremo in 2020 in the young category with the song Go well like thatand again at the Festival in 2023 with Third heart, Leo Gassman is the only son of the actors Alessandro Gassmann and Sabrina Knaflitz. When he received the proposal to interpret Franco Califano he accepted it as it is accepted A jump in the dark: interpret Such a popular character And provocative was certainly risky. And the paragones with his grandfather, Vittorio Gassman, and with his father I am certainly not easy to support.
Yes He is prepared with a coach, he met the old friends of the Roman singer -songwriter (Antonello Mazzeo and Alberto Laurenti), he lost six kilos and learned to sing in the manner of Califano, without trying to imitate him and avoiding falling into the speck.
“Califano”. (Courtesy Press Office)
Leo Gassmann debuts at the theater with his mother
Leo Gassman today dedicates himself to music, his first passion, but also continues to act. Just these days debuted at the theater in the comedy Ubi maiorwritten by Franco Bertini, with his mother Sabrina Knaflitz. The show will start on the tour in November. The piece tells of Tito, a twenty year old fencing champion, which has a very close relationship with the family.
When he discovers that the mother has a secret and that she must clash with a shady character linked to crime, for the first time she is faced with the fragility of the parents. To protect them he must decide whether to remain faithful to his moral principles or break them.
In September at the cinema the docufilm Franco Califano – nun I keep
The movie Califano It is a great way to deceive the time waiting for the release to the cinema, from 8 to 10 September of the docufilm Franco Califano – nun I keep. Written and directed by Francesca Romana Massaro and Francesco Antonio Mondini, It is an intimate and night journey in Rome loved by the Caliphbuilt on memories, unpublished archive materials and testimonies.