Anna Foglietta: “In the role of Alfredino’s mother thinking of Battiato’s ‘Cura'”

“If there is a word that for me is linked to this work, it is care. I often listened to Battiato’s ‘La Cura’ during the shooting. I repeated to myself: ‘I will take care of you’. screen Franca Rampi, the great dignity of her pain and her struggle so that what happened to Alfredino never happens again. I felt a great responsibility, the same that today makes me particularly excited, despite being a fairly experienced actress “. Anna Foglietta thus talks about her starring role in ‘Alfredino – An Italian story’, the Sky Original fiction that traces, exactly 40 years after the facts, the tragic end of Alfredino Rampi. Produced by Sky and Marco Belardi for Lotus Production, the two-part film, broadcast on 21 and 28 June on Sky Cinema and streaming on Now, tells the story that moved Italy on live TV but broadens the gaze on the beginning of the 80s and how that tragedy led to the creation of the Civil Protection. Alongside Anna Foglietta (who explained that she had not met the real Franca Rampi, by decision of Alfredino’s mother), in the cast there are also Francesco Acquaroli (the commander of the fire brigade Elveno Pastorelli), Vinicio Marchioni (Nando Broglio, the fireman who tried to keep Alfredo company and motivate during those terrible hours), Luca Angeletti (Alfredo’s father, Ferdinando Rampi), Beniamino Marcone (in the role of Marco Faggioli, one of the firemen who rushed to the scene of the tragedy), Giacomo Ferrara (Maurizio Monteleone, the second of the speleologists who tried to recover the baby), Valentina Romani (the geologist Laura Bortolani), Daniele La Leggia (Tullio Bernabei, foreman of the group of speleologists and the first to descend into the well), Riccardo De Filippis (Angelo Licheri, “the Angel of Vermicino”, the last to descend into the well and try to save Alfredo). And again Massimo Dapporto is the then President of the Republic Sandro Pertini while Alfredino is played by Kim Cherubini. Marco Pontecorvo is directed: “The story of Alfredino belongs to the memory of all Italians – says the director – even those who do not they lived it. Precisely for this reason we felt a greater responsibility in embracing the project. Everyone really gave their all. Despite having followed the minutes, we tried to get out of pure news, to dig into the souls of the characters and through them tell a fresco of Italy of that era. A country hit by scandals, government crises and terrorism that stopped with bated breath following the first live broadcast in an alternation of hopes and despair “.” We went down the well together to speleologists and volunteers, experienced with them the impossibility of descending, the claustrophobia and the frustration of not being able to save Alfredino “, adds Pontecorvo who explains:” Okay with the Rampi family it was decided never to show the child in the well. I hope that we have managed to make his absence an even stronger presence than if he had been on stage “, adds the director. Antonella d’Errico, Executive Vice President Programming Sky Italia, admits that” that of telling the story of little Alfredo Rampi it was not an easy choice, on which we questioned ourselves a lot. “” Decisive in the choice “to make this fiction,” was – explained d’Errico – the possibility of telling everyone what happened next, when the spotlight and the cameras went out. A story of unspeakable tenacity and altruism. Franca and Ferdinando Rampi, always united, fought to improve that country that had not been able to help them, giving a great lesson in life to all of us. It is thanks above all to the commitment of the Rampi family that today Italians can count on the Civil Protection. This is why this story had to be told, to those who lived it and to the younger ones who have no memory of it. “But if the protagonists have not had contact with the Rampi family (” the family has not seen the fiction and I do not think that will see it, because for them it would mean reopening a wound that is too painful “), the production had” a long and fruitful dialogue with Centro Rampi “, which Alfredino’s mother created immediately after the tragedy to prevent others from facing a similar pain. “It was precisely the meeting with the managers of the Rampi Center, Rita Di Iorio and Daniele Biondo – explains the producer Marco Belardi – that allowed this project to be realized: despite having received dozens of requests from of the producers to create an audiovisual work on the facts of Vermicino, have finally decided to entrust the production of the series to Lotus Production because we have found a perfect communion of intent, that is to allow all Italians to reconcile with this story, collecting all together the fruits born of that painful event “. According to the screenwriters Barbara Petronio and Francesco Balletta, Alfredino’s parents, “going beyond a devastating mourning, were able to join the best forces of the country in that Civil Protection of which all Italians can, today, be proud. This is what we learned from. Alfredino: when you fight all together, you can also lose, but you are never completely defeated “, they conclude.