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In the dark and intriguing atmospheres of David Fincher’s thriller cinema with one of his most acclaimed hits: “Liar love – Gone girl”, a film starring Ben Affleck and Rosamund Pike: airs tomorrow at 21.20 on Rai 4 (channel 21 of digital terrestrial). Nick and Amy Dunne seem like a perfect couple, but in reality they are in the midst of a crisis due to the move to a small town and the consequent work and economic problems. On their fifth wedding anniversary, Amy disappears. Nick, with no alibi, is the prime suspect. Based on Gillian Flynn’s best-selling Liar Love, Fincher’s film was nominated for four Golden Globes and an Academy Award and was named one of the top ten films of the year in 2014 by the National Board of Review of Motion Pictures . To celebrate the hundredth anniversary of his birth, Rai Documentari dedicates a special first evening to Ugo Tognazzi with “The mad desire to live” broadcast tomorrow at 21.20 on Rai 2. Written and directed by his son Ricky, and told together with his brothers and to closest friends, the documentary is a tribute to a great actor, but above all to a man, with his weaknesses and strengths, through interviews, intimate and affectionate stories, images of family super-8s. A long flashback to trace the profile and career of one of the greatest faces of Italian cinema: from the cemetery of Velletri – the city where Ugo Tognazzi lived most of his life and where he now rests – to his birthplace of Cremona. From the stars of Negroni, in whose company he worked, to the stars of the cinema: Ugo Tognazzi has collected more than 150 films, from the cult My friends, to The tragedy of a ridiculous man by Bernardo Bertolucci – which earned him the much desired “Palma D’Oro ”for which he had been nominated for eight times – without forgetting the great international successes of Il vizietto, Barbarella, Popular novel, Il federal, etc. As evidence of his versatility and his chameleon-like ability to move between different genres, from variety to auteur films, alongside talents of the caliber of Marcello Mastroianni, Nino Manfredi, Vittorio Gassmann, Alberto Sordi and Raimondo Vianello, Monica Vitti, who , like him, they continue to live in the collective memory. They were saved from mistreatment, psychological violence, physical violence and assassination attempts. They are the protagonists of “Survivors”, the program hosted by Matilde D’Errico, which returns tomorrow at 11.20 on Rai 3. Claudileia is a woman who has suffered severe psychological abuse by her husband. For ten long years she was married to a man who mistreated, humiliated, denigrated and offended her. For a long time the woman did not realize this, living an unhappy and painful marriage. Also because it is very difficult to recognize psychological violence for those who suffer it. Little by little, however, Claudileia realizes that the situation in which she lives is not good and she emancipates herself from that husband who treats her badly and gives her only deep suffering. One day she thus finds the courage to leave him and run away from him. Today Claudileia has rebuilt her life, works as a university researcher and has regained her esteem and self-confidence. In 2015 she founded the blog “The art of saving herself” and since then she has been fighting for women to recognize psychological violence and emotional dependence. On Rai1 ‘Doc – In your hands’ – on Rai Storia’ The true story of the Knights Templar ‘Last appointment with the second season of the fiction “Doc – In your hands” tomorrow at 21.25 on Rai 1 with Luca Argentero, Matilde Gioli, Pierpaolo Spollon, Alice Arcuri and Sara Lazzaro. In the first episode, titled Stigma, when he is now one step away from regaining his leadership position, Doc is forced to make a painful confession in front of the whole department. While the doctors try to save the life of a young soldier with unexplained symptoms, Agnes begins to investigate Caruso’s actions. But when a very aggressive bacterium spreads on the ward, all doctors have to change their priorities. In the second, entitled Mutations, locked in the ward in a forced quarantine, doctors are engaged in a fight against time to stop a multidrug-resistant bacterium that has infected them all. Doc proposes a drastic and risky solution, but Giulia will have to decide whether to trust him and face the consequences of her choice. Meanwhile, Agnese and Cecilia are at a crossroads: collaborating to help Andrea or letting their divisions prevail.The Order of the Knights Templar, monks and professional soldiers at the same time, was born to consolidate the Christian presence in the Holy Land. The ‘permanent crusade’ requires an unprecedented economic commitment. Donations and privileges make the Templars, masters in the art of generating wealth, a multinational power, bankers of sovereigns and nobles. It is the second episode of the series “The true story of the Knights Templar”, broadcast tomorrow at 10.10 pm on Rai Storia, with the introduction by Professor Alessandro Barbero. There is the first Italian performance of Thomas Adès’s Concerto for piano and orchestra at the center of the concert of the National Academy of Santa Cecilia which Rai Cultura premieres tomorrow at 9.15 pm on Rai 5. The piece was commissioned to the great English composer , winner of a Grammy, from the Boston Symphony Orchestra, who performed it for the first time on March 7, 2019, under the direction of Adès himself and Kirill Gerstein as a soloist. The world premiere was immediately recorded on CD and followed by many other performances with the most prestigious orchestras in the world – from the Gewandhausorchester of Leipzig to the Bayerische Rundfunk Orchestra of Munich, passing through the London Philharmonic – all with Gerstein as soloist. For the Italian premiere – given in February at the same time as the Rai Orchestra in Turin – the Orchestra of the Accademia di Santa Cecilia in Rome has called the Russian-American pianist Kirill Gerstein, with the musical director Antonio Pappano on the podium. The program is completed by the symphonic joke by Paul Dukas The sorcerer’s apprentice, inspired by a ballad by Goethe and made famous by Walt Disney, who entrusted Mickey the role of the apprentice, in one of the most successful episodes of the cartoon “Fantasia”, and Also sprach Zarathustra (Thus Spoke Zarathustra) by Richard Strauss, composed in 1896 and evidently inspired by the philosophical work of the same name by Friedrich Nietzsche. The opening part of the symphonic poem is also one of the most famous incipits in the history of cinema: it was used by Stanley Kubrick in the opening scene of his 2001 film A Space Odyssey. Rai5 ‘Zaha Hadid, forms of contemporary architecture’ The Russian civil war broke out immediately after the October Revolution of 1917. The three years of bloody war definitively handed over power to the Bolsheviks, led by Lenin, but left the country in an absolute condition poverty. The new government reacts to this situation with a very strong centralization of power and a harsh repression of any form of opposition. A page of history reread by Paolo Mieli and Professor Marcello Flores in “Passato e Presente”, broadcast tomorrow at 1.15pm on Rai 3 and at 8.30pm on Rai Storia. Among the main victims of the secret police and the Bolshevik repressive apparatus are intellectuals, who are persecuted, arrested, killed or forced to emigrate. On September 29, 1922, a ship loaded with intellectuals destined for perpetual exile sets sail from Petrograd, present-day St. Petersburg. Later, it will be called the “ship of the philosophers”. In the early 1920s, over a million Russians will leave the country, either by force or voluntarily. Among them many intellectuals who in the cities of landing – mainly Berlin, Paris and Prague – will give life to an intense artistic and cultural activity which, born with the aim of preserving the Russian identity, will leave an indelible mark on European culture. A portrait of Zaha Hadid with her precious interview. This is the documentary “Zaha Hadid, forms of contemporary architecture” broadcast tomorrow at 19.20 on Rai 5. Having arrived in London from Iran, in 1972, to study at the Architectural Association, Hadid founded her own studio there in 1980 and initiated a pioneering form of design that allowed her to create buildings and objects with unprecedented plasticity. Listed as one of the most famous architects in the world, she was the first woman to receive the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 2004. Since then, she has multiplied surprising projects: museums, towers, bridges, opera houses, stadiums, many in Italy from the Stazione di Afragola (Naples) at the Maxxi in Rome. The return with the Rai National Symphony Orchestra of pianist Mariangela Vacatello – who replaces the expected Hélène Grimaud, indisposed – the live concert tomorrow at 20.30 on Radio 3 and live streaming on the Rai Cultura d portal at the Rai Auditorium ” Arturo Toscanini ”of Turin. Neapolitan musician of international fame, Vacatello began studying the piano at the age of four and then won several awards in important international competitions at a very young age: from the Laureate Prize to the prestigious Queen Elisabeth Competition in Brussels in 2007, to the second prize in the “Liszt” competition. of Utrecht, obtained at the age of only seventeen. Since then she has played in the main halls of the world, from the Konzerthaus in Berlin to the Auditorium of the Mozarteum in Salzburg, through the Wigmore Hall in London and Carnegie Hall in New York. For her return with the Rai Orchestra – with which she last played in October 2019, inaugurating the 2019/2020 symphonic season – she proposes the Concerto in A minor op. 54 for piano and orchestra by Robert Schumann, shaped around the exceptional piano qualities of the composer’s wife Clara Wieck, who performed it for the first time in Dresden in 1845. On the podium for the second consecutive week the principal guest conductor of the Rai team Robert Trevino: 37 years old, of Mexican origins but raised in Fort Worth, Texas, who opens and closes the evening with two pieces written in the early twentieth century: Im Sommerwind (In the summer wind), idyll for large orchestra, composed by a young Anton Webern in 1904 under the influence of Richard Strauss’s writing; and the Symphony n. 1 in A flat major op. 55 by Edward Elgar, which had lightning-fast critical and public success and was performed in the first year alone more than a hundred times in England and America.