Rai Documentari dedicates a double special function, on 2 September from 9.20 pm on Rai 2, as a tribute to two exclusive and terribly “counter-recent” artists, protagonists, commencing from the 70s, of life and occupations “above the major”: Franco Califano and Amanda Lear. The evening will open up with “All in a modest time”, which traces the background and vocation of Franco Califano, a person and artist who has marked an whole generation with his new music and his lyrics. Co-generated by Camaleo and Rai Documentari, directed by Massimo Cinque and Roberto Cipullo, the documentary, much from staying a very simple biography, provides a continual cross-reference amongst tale and interpretation, thanks to the assistance of the anecdotes explained to by the journalist Giuseppe Cruciani, of the texts interpreted by Carolina Rey, accompanied by the musician, historical close friend of the Caliph, Alberto Laurenti. The narrative voice of Francesco Montanari will direct into the globe of Califano by reminiscences, instruments, photographs, letters and furnishings from his Home Museum in Ardea: right here time looks to have stopped and each individual object speaks of him, from the scores to the texts of his poems and tracks. , from the pictures to the addresses of the documents that bear his signature and that have produced the heritage of Italian audio. Franco Califano’s “exaggerated” lifetime was marked by excesses and audio. The complicated childhood and the loss of life of his father, the years in boarding college in Amalfi and the move to Rome in the Trionfale district. From President of the Torrevecchia di Primavalle workforce to the accusations that led him to prison 3 moments, from remaining the protagonist of the initially Mondadori photograph novels to the timeless hits of “Minuetto”, “La Musica è Finita” and “Every thing else is boredom”. His hoarseness, a unique function in singing, was his luck. His fame as a singer-songwriter has been merged with that of Latin lover who acquired him the nickname – which he himself did not enjoy – “Caliph”: Dominique Boschero and Mita Medici are just some of the terrific enjoys in his life.
To abide by, a tribute to Amanda Lear with “Queen Lear”. In the cinematographic portrait of Gero von Boehm, created by Interscience Movie GmbH and Stefilm in collaboration with ZDF / ARTE and Rai Documentari, Amanda Lear displays on the cinematic scenes of her everyday living. A man or woman normally in look for of himself. Androgynous queen of disco audio, painter, model, Tv set presenter and actress, Queen Lear has reinvented herself in excess of and about again and has lived a lot of life, normally retaining an aura of mystery. No person knew precisely in which she came from. Have been you born in Saigon or Hong Kong? In 1950 or 1939? Female or boy? All secrets and techniques that she even now plays with now. Considering that the commencing of her career in the 1960s, Amanda Lear has always recognized how to perform with this ambiguity. From Paris to London, from painter to muse of the father of Surrealism Salvador Dalì – from whom she will master the art of self-advertising – to modeling for Mary Quant and the greatest intercontinental higher fashion designers. But it will be the cover of the Roxy Tunes album “For Your Pleasure” to sanction her fame. Her relationship with David Bowie will deliver her closer to music, debuting as a singer in 1975 just after signing a contract with Ariola Data. From the unforgettable hits of “Blood and Honey”, “Tomorrow” and “Queen of Chinatown” to the disco tunes that will be truly worth the nickname of the white queen of the disco, with a extremely reduced voice and an indefinable sexual intercourse charm. Given that the mid-1980s, Amanda Lear approaches the environment of leisure and television, taking element in amusement tv plans on Rai and Canale 5, but also in France and Germany. Many thanks to the charisma, self-irony and thriller – which even now hover about her character now – Amanda Lear has entered the coronary heart of the wonderful global audience. The documentary is enriched by repertoire substance, photos and movies which are flanked by the testimonies of mates these types of as the stylist Jean Paul Gaultier, the actress Macha Méril, the DJ Michel Gaubert, the tunes critic Gino Castaldo and the tv author Salvo Guercio. , who have always tried out to learn the key of the a lot of lives of Amanda Lear, who even now performs theater nowadays, seems in some films, paints and has already composed numerous textbooks.
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