From Ibra to Impero, football between cinema and TV

Football played, football talked about, football watched. In the cinema, on television. The magic, but also the dark side. Stories of men, stories of life lived and told without pretense, with harshness and truth. Ibra’s life was already a film before it became one. But his I am Zlatan risks making a bang. The film, scheduled for release in Italy in autumn 2021, is inspired by his biography (Me, Ibra, written with journalist David Lagercrantz).

The trailer is already in circulation. The images, released by the AC Milan striker himself on his social profiles, show some of the highlights of his extraordinary career: the first kicks at the ball, the youth teams in Malmö, the success at Ajax.

By the way: the legend tells that when Ibra – only 17 years old – entered the locker room of the “Lancers”, he looked at the various champions with an air of defiance and ruled: “I am Zlatan, and who the f *** are you?”. This is already a mother scene.

The actors who will play the role of Ibra they are Dominic Bajraktari Andersson (for the period from 11 to 13 years) and Granit Rushiti (from 17 to 23 years). The feature was written by Jakob Beckman and David Lagercrantz and directed by Jens Sjorgen. It will be distributed in Italy by Lucky Red.

At the same time the first take of Empire, the new TV series Sky Studios and Èliseo entertainment produced by Luca Barbareschi. We talk about the transfer market. The background, the behind the scenes, the mysteries and intrigues of spoken and treated football, even before it was played.

Leading actor, Francesco Montanari, known for being the Lebanese in Criminal novel and recently seen it The hunter e The Medici – In the name of the family. With him also Elena Radonicich (1992, The red door, Fabrizio De Andrè – Free prince) and the great Giancarlo Giannini, one of the legendary actors of Italian cinema of the last fifty years. Empire it is an insight into the little big miseries that spoil the negotiations of the football acquisition campaign, amidst scandals and revelations. It is the story of a prosecutor at the peak of his career who loses everything, his job, his marital happiness, his relationship with his father; and is unjustly accused. He will have to redeem himself.

Finally, it should be noted, in the rich football production of this period, also a documentary that reconstructs, with great interviews, the life of Davide Astori, the Fiorentina captain suddenly passed away on March 4, 2018. The docufilm, made by Edera with Cure2Children (foundation that provides resources for the care of children all over the world with which Astori collaborated) and the Municipality of Florence, will be available from July on the Edera Youtube channel and returns the image of a man. even before that of a footballer, clean, respectable, kind of that kindness so rare today in the world.

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