And Alberto Sordi unpublished, intimate, familiar. The life off the set of the myth of Italian cinema is told in the documentary “Alberto Sordi secret” at the cinema these days. The direction is by Igor Righettijournalist, television and radio host, author, director, but also Albertone’s cousin. “This is the first documentary film about my cousin Alberto Sordi’s life off the set, there is a film part set in the 20s-30s in costume with vintage cars where I tell about Alberto’s childhood, adolescence through the stories I overheard, which I was present at between my father, my grandfather and Alberto, stories that make Alberto Sordi known as a child. Then there is a documentary part where various characters intervene, from Pupi Avati to Rino Barillari, Totò’s granddaughter, Elena De Curtis, where they tell, with a more journalistic slant, anecdotes, curiosities that these characters, friends of Alberto with him, experienced”, says the director.
The docufilm is composed of a documentary part with unpublished testimonies from friends and relatives of the actor including the director Pupi Avati, the announcer and TV presenter Rosanna Vaudetti, Totò’s niece, Elena de Curtis, the king of paparazzi Rino Barillari, Patrizia and Giada de Blanck, Sabrina Sammarini (daughter of the actress Anna Longhi), the director of photography Sergio D’Offizi, Tiziana Appetito and Alessandro Canestrelli (children of the set photographers of dozens of Alberto Sordi’s films, Enrico Appetito and Alessandro Canestrelli senior), family photos, original videos and audio. This part is linked to another where the narration becomes a real filmic story with real characters, in which Alberto Sordi’s childhood and adolescence are shown between the twenties and thirties thanks to the performances of actors and actresses loved by the general public such as Enzo Salvi, Fioretta Mari, Emanuela Aureli, Maurizio Mattioli, Daniela Giordano, Dado Coletti, Mirko Frezza, Daniele Foresi, Lorenzo Castelluccio, Emily Shaqiri, Vincenzo Bocciarelli, Fabrizio Raggi, Valerio Mammolotti, Moira De Rossi and three boys of different ages who impersonate the actor (Marco Camuzzi, Flavio Raggi and Daniel Panzironi). There is also the extraordinary participation of the dachshund pet influencer with over 46 thousand followers on Instagram Byron Righetti. A biopic in which nothing is fiction, the product of fantasy, but where instead the dialogues, situations and characters retrace the real and unknown life of Alberto Sordi to the public.
