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Elio Masantonio is a type rough, grumpy, cynical, borders on the misanthropy. But there is one special gift: succeeds in enter lives of missing persons until they join their own, managing to rebuild their identities and theirs personal events, in order to have a better chance of find them.

«Masantonio-section disappeared» is the new serie, produced by Cattleya, airing from Thursday 24 June on Channel 5 in five early evenings. Alessandro Preziosi protagonist, directed by Fabio Mollo and Enrico Rosati. “He’s not a policeman, but one strange investigator – the actor begins -. He is able to establish a visionary and mental relationship with who, by will or by force, he is vanished in nothing. By simply observing photo, Masantonio is able to see, in flesh and blood, the missing persons, they reproduce before his eyes like simulacra, like ghosts with whom he talks, empathizes and from which he manages to have details, clues about them disappearance. It creeps into them family stories, in the small or large tragedies that prompted them to disappear or by which they were swallowed. It’s the character more intimate that I happened to face – he adds -, because it corresponds to certain peculiarities of the my character which I rarely could to express through a character ».


Which? “My insolent Neapolitanism, my irreverence towards the other, and also the hardness: a way of doing raw, bread to bread wine to wine. Features I tend to to hide for the sake of domestic partnership with the next, but that I can pour into Masantonio. Moreover, it also happened to me, very often, to have desire to disappear. But who has never, at least once in their life, the desire to Leave, not to be found anymore? And who decides knowingly to eclipse he is not a victim, he is guilty towards those he leaves in darkness of absence. Then, of course, there are the real victims whose bodies are not even found ».

The idea of ​​this series comes from incredible number of people who are in Italy disappeared and never found between 1974 and 2018: approximately 31,000, 1,400 per year, 4 per day. «Individuals whose it is not known if they are still alive, hidden somewhere, or dead, like the mystery of the little girl Denise – continues Preziosi -. My detective owns this talent because it hides one uncomfortable secret of his past: he too, as a boy, was one disappeared, a voluntary escape from his family, where he reappeared twenty years later. Hence its ability to identification in the people he has to investigate. “

It is not the first time that Precious face characters with significant psychoanalytic implications: great success was his Van Gogh in the theater and is now thinking of staging an adaptation of the “Great Gatsby”, where Nick Carraway is a veteran of the WWI who finds himself in a hospital psychiatric for his addiction to alcohol. «I like psychological, intimate, more refined work. Me intrigano the characters who seemingly have no hope, that they are doomed, which have none possibility of redemption and you must peer into the dark part of their mind. On the other hand, when I was 25, I graduated in Law and practitioner in my father’s lawyer’s office, no one would bet about me as an actor. I also felt doomed, hopeless, then I have dropped everything, I wanted to decide my life and went to audition ai Amateur dramatics of Milan, because it was the farthest city from mine, Naples, to prevent my parents from coming to check me out easily. And at the end I’ve done it».

June 24, 2021 (change June 24, 2021 | 20:26)

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