The Italian television broadcast on Monday and Tuesday a miniseries about Oriana Fallaci , the “passion” of Italian journalism that towards the end of his life he provoked lawsuits and controversy with his anti-Muslim texts.
The life of “Oriana”, told through two episodes of the first public television channel RAI1, is a kind of journey through the history of the twentieth century, according to the director of the series, Marco Turco.
Excorresponsal war, especially in the Middle East and Vietnam, Oriana Fallaci interviewed in the 60s and 70s to the most important people in the world, including Yasser Arafat, Golda Meir, Indira Gandhi, Henry Kissinger, Mao Tse Tung and Robert Kennedy.
“It’s hard to find such a life like his film,” admits Turco, who would also have one of the most courageous and significant gestures of his long and award-winning career as a reporter, when in an interview he challenged the Iranian religious leader Ayatollah Khomeini and the veil was removed, which earned him immediate expulsion.
“We wanted to tell the public Oriana, the correspondent war … but also to the woman, human, fragile, especially when they fell in love, “said the Italian Vittoria Puccini, who plays Fallaci.
LOVE STORIES Fallaci
The series, filmed in many of the countries in which the reporter worked, also has two great love stories of his life, including Francois Pelou, director of the office AFP in Vietnam and his complicated relationship with the Greek poet Alekos Panagulis, opposition to the dictatorship of the colonels.
Born June 29, 1929, died in September 2006 in Italy as a result of cancer, which fought for years and called ‘The other’ in his later works.
The famous reporter, who fought as a teenager with the antifascist resistance, began his career at 17 years writing for the newspaper Il Corriere della Sera.
In 1964 he published the book “The useless sex”, a trip around the world in which reporter tried to understand how some cultures women remained in the twentieth century, a being of second or third category
Oriana Fallaci during a press conference in New York in 1975. (Photo: Getty Images).
Among his best-seller ‘Interview with history’, a classic journalism for their great conversations with politicians and actors ‘Letter to a child never born’ on abortion.
Oriana Fallaci , which went from left to right, who lived between Florence and New York, was defined as a “Christian atheist”, ie, as a believer but loyal to the Christian identity of Europe .
In the last years of his life caused a sensation with the publication of his book “The Rage and the Pride,” written after the shock of the attacks of September 11, 2001 in the United States.
Denounced as an anti-Muslim pamphlet sparked passionate controversy and earned prosecutions by ensuring for example that “the sons of Allah multiply like rats” that “Europe became a colony of Islam” and calls ” resistance against those who invade us. “
” I had a bad character, his views were controversial, but his life deserves to be told, “says Puccini.
” I knew using words like a painter colors, “says the actress as she was born in Florence, the city of the Medicis. (AFP)
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