CHon A future Aprilat 9.30pm on Rai 1 and RaiPlayyou enter one of the most painful chapters in Italian history: the Pizzolungo massacre of 1985. Directed by Graziano Diana and loosely based on the novel Alone with you by Margherita Asta and Michela Gargiuloputs the story at the center the bloody attack by the mafia on the magistrate Carlo Palermothrough the gaze of a little girl who survived a tragedy bigger than herself. The cast includes Francesco Montanari, Ludovica Ciaschetti and Peppino Mazzotta.
A future April: true story film plot on Rai 1 tonight 21 May
Province of Trapani, April 2, 1985. Early in the morning, on the provincial road that connects the hamlet of Pizzolungo to the city of Trapani, Judge Carlo Palermo is traveling with the escort, in an armored car, to go to court. A few meters away is the car driven by the housewife Barbara Costa, who is taking her twin children to school Giuseppe and Salvatore Asta, 7 years old.
Little Margherita, 10 years old, this time he is not with them because she preferred to go to school with a neighbor. Suddenly, a car bomb explodes precisely at the moment in which the two cars are very close. Barbara, Giuseppe and Salvatore die instantly. The judgeInstead, remains slightly injured thanks to the woman’s car, which acted as a shield.
Nunzio Asta, Barbara’s husband and Margherita’s father, tries to involve the institutions to receive justice against a clearly mafia-related massacre. Despite the long trials and numerous testimonies, the instigators and perpetrators have not yet been identified. Trapani, 1993. Margherita has now grown up and still has the conviction that his mourning is not guilt of the mafia but of Judge Palermo.
When father dies due to heart problems, she promises herself to discover the truth. Thus, he becomes a civil party in a new trial not entirely free from critical issues. After 38 years, it arrives finally the condemnation of the real culprits. The time has come to live in the present, the woman decides to meet judge Carlo Palermo for the first time. Faced with a man who is innocent but still devastated by guilt, chooses to reconcile with his storystarting a bright rebirth.
Francesco Montanari in “Un futuro Aprile”. (Handle)
The true tragedy of Pizzolungo
Written by Stefano Marcocci, Domenico Tomasetti and Fabrizio Coniglio, A future April maintains full adherence to the true tragedy of Pizzolungo. To the first-person account of Margherita Asta Judge Palermo’s internal torment was also added. Today the woman, who lives in Parma, he continues with great commitment as a witness for the families of the victims innocents of the mafia.
In a recent interview described the mood of the moment. «In Pizzolungo we still await truth and justice, for Barbara, Salvatore and Giuseppe and at the same time we want to know, we demand it, why Carlo Palermo had to be killed. With Carlo Palermo we are on the same front, each of us has lost something important, I have my family, he has his serenity and his work.”
Ludovica Ciaschetti, Peppino Mazzotta and Anna Ferruzzo in “Un futuro Aprile”. (Handle)
The director highlighted what particularly struck him of this true story. «I was struck by the intensity of the point of view: the vision of an 11 year old girl from whom the mafia takes away her mother and siblings. An unspeakable, deep, raw pain. Margherita grows and with her also the awareness that fighting against the mafia is possibletelling their life and testimony.” .
Francesco Montanari and the cast of the film
There is something to give substance and credibility to this painful story a cast of excellent actors. Francesco Montanari, seen in Real men, plays the magistrate showing, with a sense of proportion, the most painful and fragile side of a wounded man. Ludovica Ciaschetti, the adult Margherita Asta in the film, she made herself known in Don Matteo And May God help us.
Peppino Mazzotta, the unforgettable inspector Fazio of Commissioner Montalbano, is Nunzio Asta, a husband and a father who has lost all affection but doesn’t give up to know the truth. Filming of the film took place in the authentic places of tragedy, from Trapani to Pizzolungo
