The filming of the TV film has concluded in Turin Alda Merini. The poetess of the canals”. A Jean Vigo Italy co-production with Rai Fiction, directed by Roberto Faenza, with Laura Morante in the role of Alda Merini in her maturity years. The actress made herself available for the transformations necessary to give truth to her character, a fundamental element for a personality like that of Merini.
Alda Merini
Rosa Diletta Rossi plays Alda as a young woman while Sofia D'Elia takes on the role of the adolescent poet. In the cast: Federico Cesari who plays Arnoldo Mosca Mondadorthe; Giorgio Marchesi as Enzo Gabrici, the psychiatrist who will help the poetess in the asylum. And Mariano Rigillo, in the role of the poet Michael Pierri, Alda's second husband.
Shooting lasted six weeks, the reconstruction of the period sets was entrusted to Maurizio Zecchin and Angela Bellora and the costumes to Carola Fenocchio. Lights by Saverio Guarna and music by Dimitri Scarlato. All the cast has been in service of the story of one poet still today followed and loved by many young people who make her verses of existential mantras. film, produced by Elda Ferri and based on the screenplay by Roberto Faenza and Lea Tafuri, was consulted by Ambrogio Borsani, Manuel Serantes, Arnoldo Mondadori Mosca and Paolo Milone.
(Images official page Alda Merini)
