“M, Son of the Century” with Massimo Popolizio

The founder of fascism and its supporting actors: characters brought to the stage by Massimo Popolizio in the film “M, Son of the Century” which Ray Kultura proposes, the second part of on Saturday, October 29 at 9.15 pm on 5 Ray, while on Sunday the 30th at 16.00, it will be broadcast The full version is back on Rai 5.
Adapted from thirty panels from the historical novel by Antonio Scorati “M,” the theatrical text – interpreted by Popolizio himself and Tommaso Ragno – brings to the stage the assertion of fascism. It is a story not enough known, especially the story of the six years after the Great War, with the Fiume project, the country’s sway towards socialist revolution, the reaction and spread of divisions, the daring March of Rome (whose centenary occurred in October 1922) and the relentless effectiveness For a political ideology that escapes the classifications of governance by violent action.
The protagonists are the founder of fascism at least as much as its supporting representatives, expressing themselves in the third and first person, Marinetti, D’Annunzio, Margherita Sarfati, opponents Nicola Bombacci, Pietro Nene and Giacomo Matteotti (also captured in the transmission of correspondence with wife Vilia), and Italo Balbo , demobilized from the Great War and a whole cloud of personnel from below. The protagonist is the entire national community, the “enigmatic country”, as if the outbreak is not “the host of this virus that spreads but the host.”
A rendering of Massimo Popolizio, taken from the novel by Antonio Scorati; Collaboration with the dramatist Lorenzo Pavolini. Scenes by Marco Rossi, Gianluca Specca costumes, lighting by Luigi Biondi, video by Riccardo Fratti, voice by Alessandro Saviosi, movements by Antonio Bertosi.
with Massimo Popolizio and Tommaso Ragno and with Riccardo Pucci, Gabriel Brunelli, Tommaso Cardarelli, Michele Deltre, Giulia Hetfield de Renzi, Raffaele Esposito, Flavio Francucci, Francesco Giordano, Diana Mania, Paolo Musio, Michele O’Nani, and Alberto Santofe Nani, Beatrice Verzotti.
Produced by the Piccolo Teatro di Milano-Teatrouropa, Teatro di Roma and Luce Cinecittà in collaboration with the Santacristina Theater Centre. Recorded at Piccolo Teatro of Milan in September 2022.