cHow are the Italians really? What feelings do they have? What are their fears and hopes? He answers all these questions The art of happinessa docu-series survey in six episodes to the heart of families. The first appointment is on Rai from tonight, at 11.20pm. It then continues on 29 and 30 December and then again on 5, 6 and 7 January.
The program takes up a challenge as difficult as it is exciting: try to tell how Italians live in a particularly delicate historical moment. Marked by two very long years of health emergency first and then the bloody war between Russia and Ukraine. With the inevitable uncertainties due to the economic crisis, inflation and fear of the near future.
The art of happiness: emotions in the foreground
A few days before the start of the new year the protagonists therefore become the emotions of 60 million citizens: love, anger, pride, happiness, fear, sadness. The series tries to describe what is hidden in people’s hearts by breaking down every emotion in all its forms, from psychological to scientific, from spiritual to social and artistic.
Andrea Marcolongo is among the protagonists of The art of happiness. (Rai)
The series is based on one collective narrative that helps to better understand what each of us feels every day. All this through the stories, empathic and passionate, of many people. The voices through which this path of analysis and reconstruction of feelings proceeds are in fact those of excellent witnesses. As an example philosophers, journalists, actors and directors.
It will thus be possible to hear the story of personalities of the caliber of Umberto Galimberti, Mario Martone, Paolo Mieli and Pierluigi Battista. Without forgetting Maurizio De Giovanni, Sandro VeronesiEmanuele Trevi, Monsignor Dario Edoardo Viganò, the theologian Don Gennaro Matino, and again, Serena Rossi and Luca Zingaretti, to name a few.
Maurice DeGiovanni. (Rai)
The original interviews are also combined with a skilful use of the Teche Rai to share an incredible heritage with the viewer – made up of film clips, famous sketches, exclusive dialogues and much more – which today lives on the screen with a new meaning. And that allows you to better understand the feelings that animate the docu-series.
The art of happiness, a journey through emotions
«Analyzing the emotions that have helped us to live in the two years of the pandemic, and which today allow us to orient ourselves in a complex present, seemed to me an unprecedented and encouraging way of recounting our recent experiences and, at the same time, shed light on the resources that our nature and our culture offer us to live our time», explains Fabrizio Zappi, director of Rai Documentari.
«Emotions pervade and unite us – continues Luciano Stella, producer of the Neapolitan factory – but they are still a topic that is rarely talked about, we felt that there was a space for a product that would help us to get to know them better and therefore to face them better. The art of happiness was born with this intention, but the intention is not to offer a single recipe for everyone, but rather to make available a series of points of view from which to draw inspiration, each according to their own desires».
The art of happiness is a Mad Entertainment and Rai Documentari co-production with the contribution of Rai Teche. Subject and screenplay are by Luciano Stella and Marco Mario De Notaristhe scientific direction is by Francesca Mauro, the animated inserts are instead made by Mad Entertainment. The original music is by Antonio Fresa, the direction is finally by Marco Mario De Notaris.
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