The president of the Republic, Sergio Mattarella, participated in the presentation of the fiction "Our General" dedicated to the story of Carlo Alberto Dalla Chiesa, hero of anti-terrorism. The television mini-series was made on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the Via Carini massacre in which the general, his wife Emanuela Setti Carraro and the agent Domenico Russo were killed.
Our general
The Commander General of the Carabinieri took part in the preview of the drama screened in the Carabinieri Officers' School in Rome; Teo Luzi, the director Lucio Pellegrini, the managing director Rai Carlo Fuortes; the managing director of the Stand By Me production company Simona Ercolani, and the director of Rai Fiction, Maria Pia Ammirati. Defense Minister Guido Crosetto was also present; among the guests the children of the same From the Church: Nando, Simona and Rita. To play the general the actor Sergio Castellitto.
The fight against terrorism
The series is produced by Simona Ercolani and is written by Monica Zapelli and Peppe Fiore, with the historical consultancy of Giovanni Biancon. The fiction tells the birth of special anti-terrorism unit created by Dalla Chiesa in Northern Italy in the 70s. An organism born to combat the attack of Red Brigades against the state. A select group of men, very young, highly specialized and able to move in environments close to the members of the Red Brigades. For the “general's boys" la fight against terrorism became an all-encompassing commitment, private life no longer existed because the defense of the state came first.
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