HOME AGENCY PRODUCTIONS NEWS LIBRARY CONTACTS IN ART NINO "This guy has a very strong fiber, he could live another three or four years ... but he must not play sports, he must not get cold, he must not smoke and, above all, he must not go with women, because he is still positive for TB. . " The news is received by a woman in her forties, who wipes her tears with a handkerchief. The Second World War is still in progress, the boy in question is Saturnino Manfredi, born in 1921, from Castro dei Volsci, in Ciociaria. The discharge prognosis is from the head physician of Forlanini, where Nino ,hit by tuberculosis when he was only eighteen, he ends up hospitalized for three years. A miracle, he is the only survivor of his hospital ward. After leaving the sanatorium, Nino comes back to life. One evening he meets by chance a group of exuberant boys, who attend the Academy of Dramatic Art (including Tino Buazzelli) and, fascinated, decides to be an actor. An irrevocable decision, which redeems him from the disease and becomes a reason for living. A vocation that finds, barring his way, a big boulder: Romeo Manfredi, a solid police marshal, from Ciociaria, and Nino's father. Romeo, like the other Manfredis (a simple family largely emigrated to the USA after the First World War) is a stern man, a one-piece marshal, who never lets his feelings out, nor with his wife Antonia, much less with his two sons, Dante and Saturnino, to whom he wants to teach that "duty" comes first of all, it coincides with sacrifice and obedience. While the mother Antonia (seamstress specialized in the "overturning" of worn clothes) suffers and rejoices for that reckless son, Romeo is convinced that, sooner or later, he will be able to fold his second son (provided that the "tbc" does not kill him first) to discipline and an orderly life. When he learns that Nino has secretly enrolled in the Academy of Dramatic Arts, the marshal does not take it well. Indeed, very badly. Nino must study and become a lawyer: this is what Romeo, at the cost of enormous sacrifices, has in store for him. Nino chooses to fight his battle, mixing anger and cunning. Enrolled in Law but, who will accompany him, as mentor and companion, on an initiatory journey through makeshift engagements, expedients to make ends meet, strange encounters, adventures and disasters in the colorful world of the Italian magazine. Meanwhile, the tug-of-war with his father Romeo, who has cut off all support, continues. Then, one day, Nino finally gets his law degree. First, he jumps on the tram, goes to the police station and throws it on the desk of Romeo's police office: “Here she is, I satisfied you. Now do whatever you want with this, because I'm going on tour with Gassman! " Nino experiences more than a sentimental adventure, until he meets her. Charm, elegance, beauty. She works as a mannequin for Capucci and her name is Erminia Ferrari. Some time later, in '55, she becomes Erminia Manfredi. After a few uncertain years, dividing himself between theater, dubbing, radio and small stakes in films of little value, suddenly success with TV arrives for Nino. We are in '58. And the son expects his father to be recognized. Instead, no. Nothing. The relationship between father and son has restarted, more or less cordial, but Romeo's applause does not come even now. Or rather: Nino can't see him. Because, on the other hand, when he debuts with the Ciociara Fusse joke, it was the vorta bbona the first evening of Canzonissima, outside a very crowded neighborhood bar, where people unleash the beats of Bastiano the barista from Ceccano, there is also Marshal Romeo Manfredi who laughs, cries and applauds that son, who in the end won the match against TB and against him. DIRECTION Luca Manfredi ARTISTIC CAST Elio Germano, Miriam Leone, Stefano Fresi, Anna Ferruzzo, Duccio Camerini, Barbara Ronchi, Vincenzo Zampa, Flavio Furno, Roberto Citran, Arianna Battilana, Roberto Giordano, Sara Lazzaro, Massimo Wertmuller, Paola Minaccioni, Maria Torres, Gennaro Di Biase, Guido Roncalli, Vincenzo Nemolato, Emanuel Caserio, Luca Di Giovanni, Fulvia Lorenzetti, Cinzia Mascoli, Giancarlo Previati, Pietro Ragusa, Leo Gullotta, Giorgio Tirabassi TECHNICAL CAST production : Compagnia Leone Cinematografica in collaboration with Rai Fiction produced by: Francesco and Federico Scardamaglia (APT) for Compagnia Leone Cinematografica soggetto: Dido Castelli, Luca Manfredi sceneggiatura: Dido Castelli, Luca Manfredi, Elio Germano casting: Claudia Marotti aiuto regista: Simone Frattari suono di presa diretta: Francesco Lorandi mix: Marco Coppolecchia costumi: Alessandro Lai scenografia: Mariangela Capuano montaggio: Luciana Pandolfelli fotografia: Fabio Olmi musica: Nicola Piovani edizioni musicali: Compagnia Leone Cinematografica e Rai Com organizzatore di produzione: Nicolò Forte produttore esecutivo: Marco Dionisi produttore RAI: Marta Aceto ANNO 2016 GENERE Biopic FORMATO 1X100 MENU HOME AZIENDA PRODUZIONI NEWS LIBRARY CONTATTI PRIVACY POLICY COOKIE POLICY DISCLAIMER Tutti i diritti sono riservati. 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