ROma, 28 Feb. (askanews) – On March 4, 2005, twenty years ago, Nicola Calipari was killed in Baghdad, Iraq, on the road to the airport, while the journalist Giuliana Sgrena was bringing home just freed after almost a month in captivity. The movie “The Nibbio” by Alessandro Tonda, in theaters from 6 Marchhe wants to tell those dramatic 28 days before the high manager of Sismi sacrificed his life to save the journalist de the manifestoprotecting her with her body from friendly fire, after spent in every way for its liberation through long negotiations with the terrorist cell that had kidnapped her, but also tells the human side, with her wife and children.
Claudio Santamaria is Nicola Calipari
To interpret him Claudio Santamaria, who said: “A film that beyond the single episode, tells an institutional figure who had a profound humanity And this is the aspect on which we focused more, it had mediation as its only weapon “.
“I focused, beyond the physical weight loss that served more … not for Nicola’s iconography, because nobody knew him, being a secret service agent, but more For identify it on the screen as a figure of dialogue and not strengthof physical prowess, I wanted it to represent that aspect there, and I concentrated precisely on his great respect and love for the sacredness of life, this need to protect life at all costs, a figure that I put between the figures who belong to beautiful Italy “.
Sonia Bergamasco spoke for a long time with Giuliana Sgrena to revive her on the big screen. “I also have a modesty to be able to talk about this, it was the opportunity to give me a voice to her through the facts, through what happened, then what she has heard, her emotion told them and continues to tell her because she continues to tell this story and does not give up on the fact that there is still no answer” said the actress.
A film whose processing and realization was shared with the Calipari family, in particular the pink wife, the secret services; An institutional collaboration at various levels for a film defined by the director almost an act due to remember Nicola Calipari, a man with a wide geopolitical vision already at the time and not only and whose death is still an unsolved case.
“He created a current called ‘Caliparian’ involuntarily – said Claudio Santamaria – he did not use strength, he did not only use money, but he always sought the comparison.
So in this climate not only geopolitical but also more specifically Italian in which politics seems more to become a stadium cheering, they seem to be collected of hatred and continuous clashes, there is never a true communion of intent, a figure so that he was able to embrace all the various instances of a society, all the differences of a society, without excluding them or wanting to eliminate them, is a great example, that is, the man of the institutions. they were ”.
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