Alziator Award: a tribute to Sordi at the Uci Cinemas

First day linked to the competition for short films “Three minutes of celebrity in Cagliari” entirely dedicated to Alberto Sordi: today at 5 pm in the multiplex Uci Cinemas (piazza L'Unione Sarda) the new initiative linked to the fifteenth edition of the Alziator Prize stops. With Luca Verdone, Giorgio Gobbi, Demo Mura, Giuseppe Ammendola, Count Luigi Donà dalle Rose and Renato Rundeddu, all linked to the unforgettable actor, the cinema section wanted by the patron Maurizio Porcelli comes to life.

The guests
Tonight we start with Luca Verdone, director and screenwriter who for years has been carrying out a study and research work on the national Albertone through the Alberto Sordi Museum Foundation of which he is the scientific consultant and who, with his brother Carlo, has created the docufilm “Alberto the Great” in which Sordi's life and career is reconstructed through the stories of friends and colleagues. Giorgio Gobbi, a Roman actor who with Sordi filmed one of the cornerstones of his filmography “Il Marchese del Grillo”, in the role of aide Ricciotto, could not miss this evening's homage, and also participated in “Il tassinaro”. The director Pino Ammendola and the actor Pietro Bontempo will also arrive, while Demo Mura, another guest of the evening, will propose some of the most celebrated cameos by Sordi. The singing art of Renato Rundeddu will instead be assigned the task of interpreting "E và ... E và" which appeared in Sanremo in 1981 with an Alberto Sordi as a singer-songwriter. To tell the anecdotes related to Sardinia there will be Count Luigi Donà dalle Rose, founder of Porto Rotondo, who celebrated Alberto Sordi with a special career award after the film "Forbidden encounters", the last film that the great actor gave to history of Italian cinema. In 1998, the award was given to Sordi, present at the event with Valeria Marini as female protagonist, in a historic evening at the Mario Ceroli amphitheater.

Competition

Participants have until 6 December to present in the form of a short film (by sending it to the email fondazionealziator@gmail.com) the city loved and praised by Alziator in his works, according to the regulations established by the Francesco Alziator Foundation. The winners will be chosen by the jury chaired by director Peter Marcias and will be awarded during the second evening, scheduled for December 10 at the THotel in Cagliari, which will be attended by Carlo Vanzina who will present his book "My brother Carlo" (HarperCollins) which tells over 50 years of career of the brothers of Italian cinema.