Placido: “ Death Libero De Rienzo is immense pain for me and for Viola, her father is my great friend ”

” Libero’s death is an immense pain, a bolt from the blue, both for me and for my daughter Viola (Violante Pacido, ed) who is the same age as him. I am a very good friend of Fiore, his father, when my daughter was born he called me to wish me well. He was a real talent for cinema, his death leaves an immense emptiness inside me. “So Michele Placido at Adnkronos remembers with emotion the actor and director Libero De Rienzo, who died at the age of 44, with whom he had a relationship not only professional but also emotional and family. ” I often saw him arrive with his father, I saw him grow up and make his debut very young – he says – he was very shy. He was a great actor and screenwriter and he would also have been an excellent director. a dozen films including: ‘Il sequestro Soffiantini’ directed by Riccardo Milani, the miniseries on Aldo Moro and ‘The Seller of Women’ by Fabio Resinaro. Viola is shocked, they were friends and they saw each other often. It’s not fair, it was still a child ”, concludes Placido. (by Alisa Toaff)