Five shows and five sold outs at the Cityplex Moderno in Sassari and tonight also sold out in Cagliari for the screening at the Notorious in Piazza L'Unione Sarda (at 8 pm) and the two at the Cinema Odissea (6 pm and 8:30 pm). And this repays the production for having chosen Sardinia as the first screening in theaters of the film "Berlinguer. The great ambition". Today too, the director Andrea Segre and the actor Elio Germano will be present.
Yesterday in Sassari, Berlinguer's city, spectators were struck by the work of director Andrea Segre, who, through fiction and documentary, thanks to period footage, provided a complete picture of those five fundamental years for politics not only in Italy but also worldwide: from 1973 to 1978, Chile saw the affirmation of Allende and the coup d'état of Pinochet, the trip to Bulgaria and Russia of the secretary of the most important Communist Party in the West (a third of Italians voted for him) and the attempt at a historic compromise that unfortunately failed with the kidnapping and killing of Aldo Moro, leader of the DC.
There is also the private Berlinguer, the one who between travels and intense party activity was with his family, even if not as much as he would have liked. Elio Germano manages to reproduce Berlinguer's posture, movements and cadence (natural not artificial). He restores the spirit of a charismatic leader even if shy, and above all of a politician who knew how to really listen to everyone and that is why people felt so close to him.
Of Sardinia there is Isola Piana, Stintino, not Sassari because it was difficult to recall the image of the 70s, but there is an exemplary joke, when Berlinguer explains why he had hidden a 50 thousand lire banknote in a book: «An old tradition of the Sassarese comrades, they didn't trust banks». Sardinia is also there with actors and workers, praised by Segre, and with the splendid musical commentary of Iosonouncane, embellished in the final piece by the voice of Daniela Pes.
