Dario Aita, actor of Parthenope, plays Franco Battiato in the new Biopic Rai

Dario Aita, the actor launched by Parthenope by Paolo Sorrentino, he will interpret Franco Battiato In the TV movie Franco – The long journey. The announcement was made during the first edition of theItalian Global Series Femival of Riccione. After the biopic on Peppino di Capri, Califano And Mia Martini The life of another icon of Italian music arrives next year on Rai 1

The film, directed by Renato de Mariaproduced by Casta Diva and Rai Fiction, written by Monica Rametta, will retrace the life “not canonical of the Sicilian singer -songwriter”, the screenwriter describes it. “Franco was a man who has looked inside to go on and managed to bring out wonderful things through his music.”

“It will be a poetic and fun journey because Battiato had Inside a wide range of colors“, Adds Leonardo Ferrara, head of the Rai Fiction structure, “spacing from pop music, to experimental, to progressive rock. This film will be able to many shades of the artist within himself ». “Franco Battiato was always looking for the upper and the other,” adds Rametta, “he managed to transform and transform his music. We will tell about his mystical and spiritual journey, the strong relationship with his mother and his irony, an aspect that few know. Franco was a man who loved lightness“.

Filming of the film will begin between half and late October, but Dario Aita He started immersing himself in the universe of Franco Battiato since the first audition. “When they chose me for the part I was happy and worried», Says the Sicilian actor in Riccione,” it is the first time I played a character so loved by the general public. Usually when I keep a audition my reaction is always warm, in this case I started calling friends and family. From that moment my research began to face this company ».

Aita knew very little about Battiato (disappeared in 2021): “I had reminiscences from my adolescence to the turn of the 90s”, says the actor, “I started from scratch. Battiato’s clear appearance is that he was always looking for something, of an ego, of himself. I will be lucky if my research on the artist will find a meeting point with his ». To support the project was also Battiato’s nephew, who opened the uncle’s house in Milo to production: «Cristina was listening and has trusted a lot of us», Concludes Monica Rametta.