The new season of the Rai fiction co-produced with Lux Vide starts on March 31st. In the fifth episode, the new character played by Raoul Bova arrives
Don Matteo inaugurates the thirteenth season of the homonymous fiction, but then it will come Don Massimo. How and why? The mystery continues on the future of the TV series which, for over twenty years and with more than 250 episodes, has continued in its audience success. The passing of the baton from Terence Hill to Raoul Bov
a will take place in the fifth episode. Meanwhile, from March 31 on Rai1 in prime time, the historical character is still directing the games, directed by Francesco Vicario, Riccardo Donna and Luca Brignone.
Yesterday morning, in the Rai headquarters in via Asiago, where an exhibition was set up with all the clothes worn and the objects used by the protagonist over the years, Terence appeared on a video message from his ranch in Los Angeles. A few words, addressed to the loyal spectators and friends of the cast: «I want to thank all of you, for the love I have received. Without the public and the many colleagues who have worked with me, there would have been no Don Matteo.
After the end of the set, I missed you all. Love one another “, concludes the” ecumenical “message with a moved smile. Bova he begins smiling: “I was blessed by Terence!”, then he tries to explain, without spoiling, his new role, specifying that «Don Massimo does not replace Don Matteo who will always be present in some way, but the story progresses. My character has a hard past, he has struggled to affirm justice and in the priesthood he finds his way. He is one who is not afraid of getting his hands dirty, he is a priest in constant evolution and wants to understand what forgiveness means “.
Set as always in Spoleto, the new series kicks off from preparations to celebrate Don Matteo’s forty years of priesthood, who welcomes in the rectory Federico (Mattia Teruzzi), a boy with a difficult past, abandoned by his mother and with a little brother of a few months to look after. The priest will also deal with the “strange” suicide of a girl. Luca Bernabei, Lux Vide producer with Matilde Bernabei intervenes: «Our story is the history of the country in its evolution and, as communicators, we offer something new». Rai Fiction director Maria Pia Ammirati agrees: «It is a cross-section of Italy, with a positive and balanced key in dealing with problems».
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. Among the novelties, the return of Flavio Insinna in the role, this time, no longer of the captain but of Colonel Anceschi, also with some problems to solve with his daughter Valentina (Emma Valenti) who disputes his lack of role as father. In the cast, among others, Maria Chiara Giannetta, Maurizio Lastrico, Nathalie Guetta, Pamela Villoresi. Bova adds: “I immediately said yes to the proposal to play Don Massimo: it makes me confront a spirituality that we are all losing a bit”. But will a possible fourteenth edition be titled Don Massimo? Another mystery.
March 25, 2022 (change March 26, 2022 | 07:36)
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