Raul Gardini: plot, film, Rai 1, Fabrizio Bentivoglio, cast, death

TO thirty years after his death, the docu-fiction Raul Gardiniairing tonight at 9.25pm ​​on Rai 1rebuilds the story of the entrepreneur from Ravenna That took his own life on July 23, 1993 and traces an important chapter in the history of our country such as Tangentopoli.

Director Francesco Miccichè mixes fiction and archival materialsreconstructions and unpublished testimonies of managers who were close to Gardini, journalists who knew him. Fabrizio Bentivoglio plays the entrepreneur, while Pilar Fogliati (which we will find again in the autumn Hearts 2) a journalist who interviews Gardini. Thanks to this narrative pretext Micciché traces the events that marked the professional and personal life of the industrialist.

Raul Gardini: the plot

The docu-fiction Raul Gardini by Francesco Micciché, interpreted by Fabrizio Bentivoglio traces the personal and professional history of the Emilian entrepreneur since launch of the Moor of Venice (March 11, 1990) to that fateful a gunshot of July 23, 1993. A journey that mixes fiction, archival materials and the voices of managers and journalists who met the man and the entrepreneur, including Riccardo Muti, Paul Cayardhelmsman of The Moor of Venice, and childhood friend Vanni Balestrazzi.

The docu-film tells the complexity and contradictions of a business man who has always believed in the industrial growth of Italy, the public man and the entrepreneur pro-European. The fiction, played by Bentivoglio and Pilar Figliatiin the role of journalist Maria Bertasi, focuses about the man, the husband, the father and the friend. The journey is inside an innovative industrial reality, the life of a man and his dreams and in the midst of a crucial phase for Italy. Gardini made Italians dream with the America’s Cupbut also talks about the crisis Enimontof the rift with the family Ferruzzi and of Tangentopoliuntil the tragic suicide.

The death of Raul Gardini: July 23, 1993

The July 23, 1993 Gardini he wakes up early in his Milanese home in piazza Belgioioso and decides to shoot himself with his Walther PPK. The entrepreneur, involved in the Enimont maxi-tangentis deeply shaken by the suicide of Gabriel Cagliari (three days earlier), former president of ENI and friend, also involved in the Enimont affair. Gardini leaves the family a note with the inscription: «Thank you». Next to it was found a newspaper with the headline: «Bribes, Garofano accuses Gardini!». Perhaps that news was the coup de grace: Garofano worked for Gardini and in that way unloaded all the responsibilities on him.

But was it suicide? Several things don’t add up Gardini’s death. Starting with the gun, which has changed places several times. Were the blows to the head two or one? The official version says one, but there is no agreement on this. And why weren’t traces of gunpowder found on Gardini’s hands? There are many questions surrounding his death.

Fabrizio Bentivoglio: from Gardini to the return of Monterossi

«The first time I was offered the role of Gardini dates back to about ten years ago, for a film which, as often happens, was never made again, leaving me with a certain regret – he said Fabrizio Bentivoglio – when I got the call from Francesco Miccichè who was talking to me about this project, I didn’t have any trouble hearing it right away from me too: Raul gushed almost despite me, autonomously, as if he too was in a certain hurry to get out and free me from that promise made to him more than ten years ago».

We will meet again in the fall Welcome on Prime Video as Monterossithe detective born from the pen of Alessandro Robecchi, with a melancholy gaze, which she adores Bob Dylan and whiskey. “The second season will be better than the first,” said the actor. «Monterossi is an involuntary winner in love with losersi», the author describes it.

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