On Wednesday, March 15, 2023, Arte begins broadcasting Esterno Notte, the first series by filmmaker Marco Bellocchio. Divided into six 52-minute episodes, this accurate and successful historical fresco takes place in Italy in 1978. A merciless war is destroying the country. On one side, the Red Brigades, the first armed group of the extreme left. On the other hand: the state.
A big political scandal in Italy
For the first time in the history of a Western country, a government backed by the Communist Party (CPI) is set to take office after a historic compromise with the Christian Democratic Party (DC), the nation’s last bastion of conservatism.
Its president, Aldo Moro, was the main supporter of this alliance, which marked an important turning point in the process of mutual recognition between the two largest Italian parties at the time. On March 16, the day this new government was presented to the Chamber of Deputies – made possible by Aldo Moro’s insight into politics – the latter was kidnapped by a terrorist commando on his way to Parliament.
The first series of Marco Bellocchio
As a result of this murderous attack, which leaves no survivors among the members of the police escort, it is the Italian state that has been struck in the heart. Moro’s imprisonment will last 55 days. The period highlighted by the politician’s letters and the press releases of the Red Brigades.
55 days of hope, fear, negotiation, failure, good intentions and bad deeds. 55 days, which ended with the discovery of his body, abandoned in the back of a car in the center of Rome, halfway between the respective headquarters of PCI and DC…
Marco Bellocchio (Palme d’Honneur at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival) is writing the screenplay for this major production with authors Stefano Bisse, Ludovica Rampoldi and Davide Serino. In the casting of Esterno Notte, the Arte audience will find the actor with Fabrizio Gifuni in the skin of Aldo Moro. Here he answers actors Margherita Bai, Toni Servillo, Fausto Russo Ales, Gabriel Montes and Daniela Mara.
Six episodes of the series are already shown on the arte.tv website.
Source: Allocine
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