M.bow Looker comes out of the lair of the Red Brigades of Good morning night to tell the point of view of five characters of the Moro story in Night exteriorthe TV series premiered at Cannes Film Festival and in the hall from today (the first part) e from 9 June (the second).
Six episodes in which the director focuses on the human and dramatic figure of President of the DC (Fabrizio Gifuni) kidnapped by the BR on 16 March 1978, Francesco Cossiga (Fausto Russo Alesi), Pope Paul VI (Toni Servillo), the Brigadier Adriana (Daniela Marra) and the wife of Moro Eleonora (Margherita Buy).
Night exterior: the plot
1978. Italy is in chaos: on the one hand there are the extreme actions of Red Brigadeson the other Aldo Moro (Fabrizio Gifuni) who tries to form a government of national unity with the support of PCI, for the first time among the representatives of an Atlantic pact country. In Moro’s speech to the party the watchwords are responsibility, trust and courage. The fear of Cossiga, then Minister of the Interiorit’s for the Americans: “For them, red is red,” he says.
On the day of the inauguration of the new government overflowing with undersecretaries, but with the main irremovable hinges, Moro is kidnapped in via Fani and his escort exterminated by the BR. From that day the 55 days of imprisonment that have marked the history of our country.
The government, the whole of Italy, Pope Paul VI and the Moro family led by his wife Eleonora“A strong, proud woman who has taken so many mysteries to her grave”, says the director who for the first time experiments with seriality. shock.
Fabrizio Gifuni in the role of Aldo Moro. (Photo by Anna Camerlingo)
Everyone tries to save or pretend to save Moro
Looker leads us outside the Moro bunker, at the top of politicsin the room and in the mind of Cossigain the house of the del President of the DCin the Vatican, where the Dad he prays for the release of his friend and from where he writes directly to the BR begging for release.
The series is based on the memorial of the politician and on the letters written in his own hand that came out of that prison, a cry that he had to wake up the country. Politics, on the other hand, did not listen following the hard line of firmness which led to an inevitable consequence. You wanted to call Moro crazy, as the newspapers wrote, to sidetrack the line Brigadesbut it did not work.
The DC villains’ trial ends with a death sentence. Everyone tries to save the man who was to become a martyr, and to pretend to save him by openly or secretly boycotting any deal.
Toni Servillo in the role of Paul VI. (Photo Anna Camerlingo)
Moro’s hatred of Andreotti, Cossiga and the obedient executors of orders
Bellocchio quotes Francesco Rosi at one point in the series, and this first television work of his looks right at the civil cinema of the director of The Mattei case. As he studies the facts, analyzes them and exposes them to us, here in a more complete way than in Good morning night: expands the political horizon e personal of this Italian drama.
The strongest moment of Night exterior is when Moro finds himself on the imaginary deathbed in front of the so-called friends where rejects the DC, resigns from the party and renounces all offices and any future candidacy. And when, before ending his life in the red Renault 4, he confesses to the priest on duty of hate Andreotti and the others obedient executors of orders. Cossiga defines it “an unhappy bipolar: semi-infirmity could be claimed in a trial. They all agree to sentence me to death in the country that has abolished the death penalty“.
Fausto Russo Alessi in the role of Francesco Cossiga. (Photo Anna Camerlingo)
Night exterioran emotional as well as a political tale
Night exterior also takes care of the private life of the protagonists of this Italian historical page. Bellocchio tells the relationship between his wife and Cossiga: «I live like a ghost – the Minister confesses to Moro – He ignores me and when I enter the house he disappears ». Moro confronts himself with the children Maria Fida, Anna, Agnese and Giovannibut above all we know his boundless love for his nephew Luca.
And on the relationship between Aldo and Eleonora it is the wife herself who confessed something to us during that March 14, 1978: “I don’t feel loved. Aldo has his head elsewhere. I have to think about the children to whom I don’t know what to say, he stays for the duty of a father, I would like to slap him ». A woman who is determined and against the government strategy that wants to make her husband a martyr to sanctify him and who, contrary to what the newspapers write, is not a madman: “The letters show that he is in himself, with his deep soul as a man of common sense.”
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