Michela Martini

The four decisive years in the life of Eugenio Monti, from the bronze medals in the bobsleigh at Innsbruck 1964 to the Grenoble Olympics in 1968. Amidst grueling training sessions, falls, and comebacks, this is the portrait of a champion who challenged his limits with talent, loyalty, and courage, supported by love and friendship. Inspired by the literary work of Stefano Rotta.

At the local cinema, an audience watches a Spaghetti Western matinee. During the film's on-screen climactic duel, a bullet is fired into a patron. With no leads and a theater full of suspects, police investigators lock the doors, put everyone back in their seats, and run the movie again. But will this shot in the dark reveal the real killer?

Carpenter Arturo becomes a literary sensation when the children's stories he writes in his spare time get published, but he comes to resent success and the spotlight that comes with it. During a press tour he falls in love with beautiful married woman, Matilde.

The story of Emma, a courageous woman who left home at a very young age. Emma's first job is working in a paddy field. There she meets Paride, and a romance begins. But amid a workers strike, Paride dies, leaving Emma alone and also pregnant. From this point on Emma struggles for survival.

"Tomorrow, I won't be alive anymore," Francesco tersely tells his family, gathered for dinner. He has decided to commit suicide because he can't bear living without his wife, who died three months earlier, and can't imagine the idea of getting used to the pain. After the initial shock, his parents and his sisters try to make him change his mind.

The play wants to explore afterlife, death re-emerging into life even just for an hour in a whirlwind of powerful emotions ranging from disbelief to joy and anger, until total despair and the last goodbye.

Produced by RAI and filmed in the Turin studios in 1979 but edited years later, in 2001-2002, this is the staging for TV of Carmelo Bene's play of the same name. One of his last works, it premiered in 2002, on March 18, immediately after his death, at the Teatro Argentina in Rome.