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Thirty years after his death, the docu-fiction Raul Gardini, broadcasted on Sunday 23 July, in prime time on Rai 1 (it recorded almost 1.5m and 11.6% of share), reconstructs the figure of the entrepreneur from Ravenna and retraces an important chapter in the history of our country. Using archival material, reconstructions and unpublished testimonies, the docu-fiction - directed by Francesco Micciché and interpreted by Fabrizio Bentivoglio with Pilar Fogliati - opens with the launching of the Moro in Venice on 11 March 1990 and ends on 23 July 1993, the day of Gardini's suicide, recounting the complexity and contradictions of a man with a strategic vision who has always believed in the industrial growth of Italy and Europe. In the series, Gardini's meeting with a journalist - played by Pilar Fogliati - becomes the occasion for an interview/confession that traces the events that brought him to international prominence.
Through the testimony of the managers who were close to him, of Riccardo Muti, of the journalists who knew him and thanks to the touching memory of Paul Cayard, helmsman of Il Moro di Venezia, a private and unpublished portrait of Raul Gardini emerges, linked to family values and his homeland. Raul Gardini is produced by Rai Fiction with Aurora TV with the support of the Emilia-Romagna Region through the Emilia-Romagna Film Commission.