Forty years have passed since the Vermicino accident, in which Alfredo Rampi died, a six-year-old boy who fell into an artesian well who for three days did everything to save half of Italy. Among the many reflections and commemorations, there is also a miniseries in four episodes (on Sky Cinema from 21 June), the first docudrama tv on the affair.
Everyone remembers the 18-hour live broadcast that turned a news story into the first major national media event in real time, but the Sky series chooses to focus on the lesser-known – but no less important – link with the birth of the Ministry for Protection. Civil, strongly desired by Pertini after Franca Rampi, Alfredino’s mother, had told him how the lack of coordination had made the willing help ineffective.
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Alfredino has that accuracy and coherence of purpose that often lacks fiction Rai: I think of the terrible L’Aquila high hopes, which stuck abstract narrative schemes on the post-earthquake in L’Aquila, without any effort to understand the reality represented. On the contrary, here is a story set in Rome whose characters speak Roman, there is due attention to the cultural atmosphere of the time, there is the sensitivity of not lingering over the mother’s pain and never showing the child. inside the well, there is a strong thematic choice carried out with coherence, there is the interesting and modern character of Franca Rampi, well embodied by Anna Foglietta, who, however, is not asked to fill every scene.
Conventional fiction
It is clear that it is one fiction conventional, with a too didactic ending and many false family pictures, which is based above all on the big one suspense of rescue attempts in central episodes. If on the one hand one would expect a little more courage and originality from Sky, on the other, the results achieved by a well-established production system should be appreciated which, also thanks to screenwriters such as Barbara Petronio, is better than Rai in those ” Italian stories ”which would be within his competence.
Alfredino. An Italian story, Marco Pontecorvo, Sky Cinema and Now from tomorrow