Isn’t Raffaele Acampora? a magistrate, a journalist or a policeman. He is a man like many others. But he rebels against organized crime to give a better future to his wife and four children. The film Everything for my son with Giuseppe Zenodirected by Umberto Marinois a story of rebellion and revenge on the Camorra inspired by true events, re-run (in repeat) on Rai 1 on Thursday 16 May.
The plot
The setting is that of Campania in 1996: Raffaele and? a breeder who ‘does’ the markets, a profession he inherited from his father, wakes up before dawn every day and travels dozens of kilometers to sell the animals he himself has raised. A hard life, which he faces head on with the attitude of someone who knows he can do his job well. Unfortunately, however, the tentacles of the Camorra do not even spare his sector. Every week Raffaele and his colleagues are victims of the criminal racket, which imposes protection money and all kinds of harassment on them. Until, one day, Raffaele decides to rebel. He founds a union and, with his contagious fortitude, convinces his colleagues to join. He collaborates with the police and the judiciary, reports, names names. He is aware of the risk he runs. He knows that Anna and all her family are worried about him, but he can’t and doesn’t want to go back now. The Camorra tries in every way to make him stop, first with offers and then with threats and intimidation. But Raffaele told the union members that he would defend their interests, and he has only one word.
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The protagonist Giuseppe Zeno
Playing the valiant Acampora is Giuseppe ZenoNeapolitan actor, 46 years old, raised between Ercolano and Vibo Valentia: “Raffaele Acampora is a man aware of the reality in which he lives and of the phenomenon he is against. A rabbit breeder with an almost boyish naivety, aware of the risk he runs, but with the obstinacy of taking back the denied dignity and giving it back to others too. And above all with the firm desire to give his children the chance to live in a better world”, says one of the most loved and popular actors. of TV fiction. Carabinieri, Antimafia squad, The Camorra clan And A ladies’ paradisebut also Magic spell, A Place in the Sun, Sea people And The honor and the respect these are just some of the titles in his long CV, which has made him one of the best-known faces on the small screen. Imma Taratanni – Deputy Prosecutor, Mina September And Blanca three recent productions in which he took part.
“A small man who makes a big choice”
And then Everything for my son: “My character is a sort of homage to the men and women who rebelled against organized crime in various parts of our country or had the courage to denounce, at the risk of their lives, their loved ones. An invitation not to give up”, underlines Zeno, father of two little girls with his wife and colleague Margareth Made. “Everything for my son tells the story of an ordinary man, with an ordinary life, a small man, who however makes a big choice – the director’s words Umberto Marino – this TV film aims to show evil without romanticizing it and to tell how good opposes it with small, legal, not very sensational, but no less important gestures and behaviors”. Also in the cast together with Zeno Antonia Truppo, Tosca D’Aquino, Mimmo Mancini, Ernesto Mahieux, Giuseppe Pirozzi, Massimiliano Rossi, Nello Mascia, Roberto De Francesco And Fabio De Carofor a total of “forty-two roles between large, small and very small, all served by the excellence of the Neapolitan school – declares the director – a patrol of actors who are entrusted with the task of giving credibility and feeling to all the characters they bring to life history”.
