Dfrom his childhood in the Florentine countryside to the direction of the Astronomical Observatory of Trieste. It’s the life of Margherita Hack – now become Daisy of the starsa movie airing tonight on Rai 1 at 9.30pm. She’s there to play the scientist Cristiana Capotondi.
Directed by Giulio Base and co-produced by Rai Fiction and Minerva Pictures, is freely taken from Nine lives like catswritten by Hack and Federico Taddia. The film obviously tells the story of a private Margherita Hack, less known and less talked about, but also one who has established herself in a world of men.
Daisy of the starsthe plot of the movie
Hack was born in Florence in 1922. His parents – Roberto Hack (Cesare Bocci) and Maria Luisa Poggesi (Sandra Ceccarelli) – they were nonconformists and forerunners of gender equality. Educating her in values that in the following decades found more space in public debate, but which were then the prerogative of a few. Margherita pizza (as a very young girl played by Sveva Zalli) understands, and indeed she does a curious, intelligent little girl who loves nature and sport.
To the gardens of Bobolino meets Aldo (Giovanni Salomone), an equally curious and lively child. During adolescence Aldo falls ill and MargheritaWhen she sees him again, she struggles to recognize him.
For her these are the years of training and transformation. In high school she feels different. She is a vegetarian, she doesn’t like skirts and bows, she plays sports and doesn’t accept abuse. In particular, the one reserved for his mathematics teacher, victim of the racial laws. A Jewish woman who is prevented from teaching and ultimately commits suicide. Margherita pizza – against the fascist ideology like his father Robertowho in doing so loses his job – loudly denounces the terrible injustice, risking being expelled from all schools in Italy.
Once you have obtained your diploma, he enrolled in the faculty of physics where he finds it Aldo (Flavio Parenti), with whom she marries. Theirs is an unconventional marriage that lasts a lifetime.
Cristiana Capotondi is Margherita Hack in “Margherita delle stelle”. (Rai)
A woman in a man’s world
Daisy of the stars focuses on the early years of the astonishing career of astrophysics. And on the difficulty that her gender and her intelligence pose to her, that is, that even though she is better than her colleagues, however, she is forced to fight to have her merits recognised.
A strong impact with this resistance and we meet takes place at the Merate observatory. Where they try to hinder it, while she doesn’t give an inch. Despite that, to see herself recognized she had to wait until 1964, when she became the first woman to obtain the directorship of the Astronomical Observatory of Trieste. Dedicating himself completely, with love and great informative ability, to the study of the stars.
The cast completes: Giulia Battistini (Betty), Caterina Rossi (Rachel), Francesca Orsini (Irma), Mario Rossi (Giorgio Abetti), Nicola Stravalci (Manlius Bassus), Lorenzo Balducci (Girolamo Fracastoro), Alessio Di Clemente (Danilo Innocenti) and Roberto Caccavo (Prof. Mancinelli).
“Margherita delle stelle”, Cristiana Capotondi, Flavio Parenti, Cesare Bocci and Sandra Ceccarelli. (Rai)
Daisy of the starsCristiana Capotondi: «It was a journey to the stars»
«A healthy Tuscan spirit that brings together many things in elegant magic. She was a woman truly driven by this freedom that shaped her from a very young age. Her parents gave her the freedom to be free, but responsibly”, explained Cristiana Capotondi to With us… freewheeling hosted by Francesca Fialdini.
Margherita Hack. (Contrast)
Margherita Hack «she found herself in a predominantly male world feeling that men were uncomfortable with an intelligent woman who spoke their language, and perhaps spoke it even better. She was very ironic, very authentic, atheist.”
On the occasion of the presentation press conference, Capotondi spoke about how «Getting into this character was a journey to the stars. I truly believe that the study of the stars is a metaphor for our life.” About Hack’s free education: «I believe she has set her sights on the right star both as a scientist and as a woman, because she did not escape the even painful strength that was given to her by this family education that went against the grain. Outside the time that she lived and placed her in contradiction with her school friends.”
«You understand that he has completely different codes of behavior – Capotondi always says of Margherita’s relationship with the female world: «These codes lead you to a great love story with a man who takes her and accompanies her towards the right star. She was a woman with ideas who stimulated women to have ideas and invited them to study.”
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