With the first episode, dedicated to the great Sandra Mondaini on the tenth anniversary of her death, it returns from Monday 28 September at 11.15 pm on Rai3 “Illuminate”. The third season of the docu-series consists of four episodes, produced by Anele in collaboration with Rai3, which tell about four Italian icons: the actress and soubrette Sandra Mondaini, the poet Alda Merini, the opera singer Renata Tebaldi and the architect Gae Aulenti.
Combining cinematic narration, archival documents and direct testimonies, the four docu-films retrace the stories of four extraordinary Italian women who have distinguished themselves in different fields, transforming their existence into an example for future generations. To guide the story, four Italian actresses who will lead the viewer through these exemplary stories: Lucia Mascino (for Sandra Mondaini), Claudia Gerini (for Alda Merini), Serena Autieri (for Renata Tebaldi) and Matilde Gioli (for Gae Aulenti).
In the first of the four docu-films, “Casa Mondaini” directed by Maria Tilli, Lucia Mascino is invited by Giorgia Trasselli, the famous “nanny” of the Vianello house, to participate in a charity auction dedicated to Sandra Mondaini in the year of tenth anniversary of her death: this is the ideal opportunity to retrace the extraordinary life of the first comic soubrette of Italian TV, who entered the collective imagination with her iconic characters, her professional and sentimental partnership with Raimondo Vianello, her life choices often difficult and never predictable.
Among the numerous illustrious witnesses who have given their precious contribution to the story of this icon of Italian TV, many friends, relatives and colleagues including: the “adoptive” daughter and nephew Rosalie and John Mark Magsino, Antonella Elia, Giancarlo Magalli, Gerry Scotti, Simona Izzo and Ricky Tognazzi, Edoardo Vianello, Sandra Mondaini’s biographer Federico Bravetti and many others.
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