"The sky hunters", this is the title of the docu-film on the history of the aviation ace Francesco Baracca interpreted by the actor Giuseppe Fiorello. The documentary will be broadcast on Rai1 next Wednesday, March 29, 2023; today the new production is presented in a press conference at the Rai headquarters in viale Mazzini in Rome.
Francesco Baracca
The documentary is produced by Anene in collaboration with Air Force, with Rai Documentari, in co-production with Istituto Cinecittà light and with the support of Intesa Sanpaolo. The documentary film is directed by Mario Vitale, talented young director who already has several national and international prizes and awards to his credit. The project celebrates the centenary of the establishment of the Air Force through the story of the heroic deeds, life and friendship of those pioneers of flight who distinguished themselves for their actions and their courage during the WWI. True heroic deeds that laid the foundations for the birth of the Air Force on March 28, 1923. A story that intersperses precious archival materials with actual fiction and embraces universal themes such as friendship, dreams and love.
Giuseppe Fiorello is the lieutenant pilot of the Royal Army Francesco Baracca, who for his merits will be promoted to major, in the meantime assuming command of the 91st Squadron, the "Squadriglia dei aces". Romagnolo, sanguine, instinctive and courageous, charming and cultured, generous, but never unnecessarily devoted to sacrifice. Baracca is remembered as “the Ace of Aces” for having achieved the highest number of aerial victories among Italian pilots of the Great War. In fact, he had the upper hand in 34 battles by shooting down as many enemy aircraft. The daring pilot established himself in the collective imagination of the Italian people as a national hero. His death, which occurred at the age of 30 on 19 June 1918 during a mission on Montello, aroused great emotion.
Baracca Museum
In his name in 1926 was inaugurated in Lugo di Romagna the Baracca Museum, since 1993 moved to the pilot's birthplace. Location of some filming thanks to the collaboration with the Municipality of Lugo di Romagna ed Emilia Romagna Film Commissions. In the cast also Luciano Scarpa, Claudia Vismara, who gives the face to Norina Cristofori, a young opera singer who will live an intense love story with Francesco and Andrea Bosca.
(Photo Facebook Museo Baracca; in evidence Beppe Fiorello in the role of Francesco Baracca / Photo Ansa)
