Stasera is broadcast on Rai 1 at 9.35pm Carousel in Lovea TV film that aims to take viewers back in timein an Italy that was discovering the power of television and advertising. As the title says, the film tells the story of the birth of Carousel. And also of a great love, which like all great loves must deal with difficulties. Those of the two protagonists, played by Ludovica Martino and James Georgelast for twenty years.
Carousel in Lovepreviews, plot, cast and curiosities
In 1957, three years later, television forcefully entered Italian homes, transforming courtyards and bars into collective meeting places. Three years earlier, exactly on 3 January 1954, Rai broadcasts had begun. With the TV it also arrived in homes Carouselthe program that changed the country’s imagination forever. And if in those days turning on the television was a luxury, today it is an automatic gesture. Unless you choose to stream: Carousel in Love, by the way, it is available on RaiPlay. Jacopo Bonvicini, director of the film, together with the screenwriters Simona Coppini and Armando Festa, carefully studied the phenomenon Carousel to bring it back to the screen.
Who are the protagonists of Carousel in Love?
Laura Ceccarelli (Ludovica Martino) is an extremely creative girl, fascinated by TV. Against the will of her father who did not understand her aspirations, in 1957 she won the competition to become a secretary in Rai. And so he realizes his dream of entering that new worldextraordinary for her. Mario De Angelis (Giacomo Giorgio) is instead a skeptical and womanizer director, who lends his talent to advertising. For him Carosello is only a temporary commitment: deep down, in fact, he cultivates the dream of directing auteur films, those for the cinema.
Giacomo Giorgio and Ludovica Martino (Rai)
The plot of the film
Laura considers Mario a snobbish intellectual. For Mario, Laura is just a naive girl. They are both wrong. She goes from secretary to author. AND behind the scenes of the program between ups and downs they will spend twenty years together full of clashes and misunderstandings, intertwining feelings and workconstantly touching each other and risking never finding each other.
After the initial hostility, A feeling of esteem arises between them, which first becomes affection and then love.
Carosello was the mirror of a changing society
For twenty years, from 1957 to 1977, Carousel it was much more than an advertising program, because it actually told the story of the evolution of the country. In those years Italy was changing rapidly: women were looking for spaces of autonomy, economic well-being was growing, modernity was knocking on the doors of homes.
«In the film, Italy has become a dreamed Rome that resembles a small timeless countryand television is a container in which the hopes and sorrows of a people move”, said director Jacopo Bonvicini.
Giacomo Giorgio and Ludovica Martino (Rai)
The voices of the protagonists, Ludovica Martino and Giacomo Giorgio
«Laura is a very revolutionary girl for her time», explained Ludovica Martino when presenting the film. «It goes against what her father would have wanted for her: she wants to work, emancipate herself, find her place in the world. We see her go from being a little girl with lively eyes to an emancipated woman who manages to emerge in a chauvinist environment, going from making coffee to obtaining a very important role as an author.”
Giacomo Giorgio, describing “his” Mario, said that «despite being a somewhat vain, arrogant and cynical boy, he hides a great sensitivity and fragility. I really enjoyed telling the error: in Carousel everything is wrong for Mario. But after twenty years he realizes that great cinema had been made precisely in those little pieces of Carousel».